On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:34:41PM -0500, Brian McCullough wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Aaron S. Joyner wrote: > > The reason to look for virus protection on linux, in my experience, is > > most often to scan files either stored on the box (samba file server > > scenario), or passing through the box (mail gateway scenario). Seeing > > as the original request was concerned with interfacing with sendmail, > > and scanning the shares associated with samba, it seems he has a mind to > > protect end user's who are running windows, by stopping things at the > > server for them. > > That's precisely why I have recently added scanning on the server that I > am managing for one of my clients. The scanning on the workstations ( > AVG ) wasn't always catching everything, and we went through an infection this > week. > > I have also gone the ClamAV route, in a QMail environment, along with > QMail-Scanner. I am also looking at Odieavir, for that "belt and > suspenders" solution.
Hello My bad. I skimmed that email and didn't see sendmail. Yes, if you read your email with windows while you use sendmail as your MTA then ClamAV is the way to go. > > Brian > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- Happy Trails John F. Davis ABC #6334 1992 R100GSPD Durham, North Carolina http://www.skink.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
