ClamAV, very impressed and thus far reliable, so many keeping it
honest gives one that comfort blanket tingly feeling.
Works for me on my servers (Debian) and the Mac OS X port (ClamXav)
works a treat, very much up to date with its db listing and engine.
Seems to find all files I have tested it with also some emails I was
not aware had it. So, I inadvertently passed these on too others,
Woops Sorry, but now I think I have myself checking all mail through
servers and direct pop access from mailing lists etc. Unfortunately
it does not do Classic or OS9 earlier, but it has usual scheduling
systems or can be cronjobed this is how I used to run it before
ClamXav was released. I do not have OS X servers at my discretion,
so cannot confirm it works as it does for my Debian boxes although
one would suspect it does, or has the possibility to be compiled
fairly easily and run as a cronjob, I do rememember a while back one
of the ADC newsletters about this, will have to track them down and
forward on?
I've installed clamav on a couple of OS X mailserver boxes (one
XServe and one G4) and it's pretty easy (well, about as easy as
things get in the unix world).
The only annoyance I have with it is that whilst the virus
definitions are downloaded automagically by freshclam, it
occasionally whinges that your clam engine is out of date, which you
need to update manually.
I followed the instructions at
<http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20041104095414942>
lots of good stuff there.
Have fun,
Shay
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