Re: [Clamav-users] sendmail + clamav + mailscanner + spamassassin

2005-03-22 Thread Dave Goodrich
in Open Source Software. I'm *not* saying anything bad about clamav, we first used it as test while we searched the budget for commercial AV software and never saw a need for more. This list has proven to be exceptional as well. Clamav is great, MailScanner just makes it even better. DAve -- Dave

Re: [Clamav-users] sendmail + clamav + mailscanner + spamassassin

2005-03-22 Thread Dave Goodrich
Nigel Horne wrote: On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 14:51, Dave Goodrich wrote: Nigel Horne wrote: On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 14:27, Rob MacGregor wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:33:03 +0530, Nabin Limbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What are the benefits of using 3rd party software like Mailscanner, Mimedefang

Re: [Clamav-users] sendmail + clamav + mailscanner + spamassassin

2005-03-22 Thread Dave Goodrich
Cormack, Ken wrote: -Original Message- Dave Goodrich wrote: We use MailScanner because it offers additional tools, delivery options, routing, and filtering above clamav. We also do not have issues with the clam daemon that some have had. Julian is exceedingly responsive to his

Re: [Clamav-users] Phishing Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Goodrich
Jim Maul wrote: snip If my car is broken usually I take it to a mechanic. But if a friend of mine who happens to be a plumber can fix it also, does it really matter if I bring it to him instead? No. -Jim Ok, I took part in the previous discussion and I accept the developers decision. But I

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing and other social engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Julian Mehnle wrote: Dennis Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Besides, if mail servers started using SPF (or similar authentication techniques) to verify envelope sender addresses, whoever publishes SPF records for his domains would be Not to start another flame war, but I find

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing and other social engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Trog wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:39, Dave Goodrich wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Am I? I'm just saying that I think that a distinction between technical attacks and social engineering attacks is possible and meaningful (even if not everyone would make use of that distinction). That has nothing

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishingandothersocial engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:04:39 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Jones wrote: I think the thing to remember here is that we are discussing scanning of email. If the email is malicious, then having clamav remove it is a good thing in my opinion. Spam (uce/ube) that poses no

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishingandothersocial engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Dennis Skinner wrote: Dave Goodrich wrote: My preference has been stated. I would prefer SpamAssassin do the puzzle solving of message bodies, headers, URI lookups, message obfuscation, etc and let ClamAV do the signature matching of attachments. SA uses many more resources than ClamAV. Clam

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing andother social engineering attacks

2004-11-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Bart Silverstrim wrote: I find it interesting though that I've yet to hear from anyone commenting on my proposal to create a filter that will extract and convert all emails into pure text, or reformat it so only certain things can get through as an attachment with a pure text message so it

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav under an SMP environment

2004-09-13 Thread Dave Goodrich
FreeBSD 4.8 dual intel 1.3gz, 1gb ram, Running Clamav in Mailscanner procesing 100k messages a day. Load rarely above 1, runnng over a year with no problems. DAve Timo Schöler wrote: Anyone running ClamAv in an SMP server? yes. Sun Ultra 80 Dual CPU/Solaris 9 in testing environment,