I don't think many people use anti-virus software on Linux servers, although there are products out there for it now and I could be wrong.
As far as email goes, I have always felt it is better to intercept viruses before it gets into the network. The services to do this are generally outsourced (via a intermediate email gateway and a DNS change) or people use a product/project which sits on your incoming SMTP gateway. I know qmail can do this with some patches and purchases (I have done it) and sendmail may have a way of doing the same. My work place resells a virus/spam service, if your interested in that call me (252-4041).
Scanning email boxes on a server is not a great idea. I would think that Norton Anti-Virus (NAV) on your windows desktops would be a better idea (or just get rid of Windows altogether). You could also setup a Windows workstation with the full permissions to access a Samba mount on the mail server and run NAV on the mount point. I don't know how well NAV would handle attachment encoding and it probably will not work with mbox structures if your using sendmail.
I recommend virus detection on both the SMTP gateway and on your windows workstations (or getting rid of Windows if you can). I don't necessarily like the Samba idea, just throwing it out there.
Brion.
At 09:56 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
I take it no one uses ant-virus software on linux servers? or nobody likes me? ;-)
Daniel Kuecker wrote:
what do you all recommend for anti-virus software running on a linux server hosting email and scanning it on the server?
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