Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.
Paul Schmehl writes: > Uvscan is McAfee's antivirus product. Did you install it? There's a conf > file in the files directory of that port. It defines AVSCANNER as "/usr/ > local/bin/uvscan". That would require that you have McAfee Antivirus for > FreeBSD installed. If this machine handles lots of mail, I wouldn't > suggest > you use that. Uvscan launches a shell for each time it's called, and it > will suck a lot of cpu and memory (based on our extensive comparison > testing.) Thank you very much. I was a little fuzzy about how the mcAfee product with its data base got there or what it looked like, etc. It is probably not worth the extra load to have antivirus-milter on there although I see now that had mcAfee been there, it would have probably done its job. I am the only major inbound Email account on that system, but it is a rather busy workhorse for our group and is already busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.
--On January 26, 2007 10:16:57 PM -0600 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone gotten the port /usr/ports/mail/antivirus-milter to work? The system in question runs FreeBSD5.4 with sendmail and bogofilter. Bogofilter is excellent at helping sort messages in to spam or other folders if you generate a large wordlist. One category of junkmail, however, is not true spam. It is more a form of hacking in that it tries to implant viruses like Johny Appleseed only this guy is Johny weedseed. I got antivirus-milter to make and install but it immediately failed when started: antivirus[53446]: externalcommand() failed to execve() /system/av/decullotage/uvscan Uvscan is McAfee's antivirus product. Did you install it? There's a conf file in the files directory of that port. It defines AVSCANNER as "/usr/local/bin/uvscan". That would require that you have McAfee Antivirus for FreeBSD installed. If this machine handles lots of mail, I wouldn't suggest you use that. Uvscan launches a shell for each time it's called, and it will suck a lot of cpu and memory (based on our extensive comparison testing.) I would recommend that you install either clamav (security/clamav) or your school's commercial product *if* it has a daemon for FreeBSD. If it's a shell program like McAfee, I would *not* recommend it. Once you have the av product installed, edit the conf file appropriately and you should be up and running. You'll find the conf file in /usr/local/etc. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
