Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800): > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt > > more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus > > protection, especially for email: > > > > # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort > > amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > > amavis-milter - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > > amavis-postfix - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > > clamav - Powerful antivirus scanner for Unix. > > clamav-daemon - Powerful antivirus scanner daemon. > > clamav-testfiles - Use these files to test that your antivirus program works > > exiscan - an email virus scanner for exim > > f-prot-installer - Installer package for F-Prot Antivirus(tm) > > libclamav1 - Virus scanner library > > libclamav1-dev - clam antivirus library development files > > mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger. > > sanitizer - The Anomy Mail Sanitizer - an email virus scanner > > xbill - Get rid of those Wingdows Viruses! > > > > Is there some webpage that compares all of these, in order to make an > > informed decision? > > If everyone who uses your server uses mutt to read their mail, then you > really don't have much to worry about from email viruses. When an email > virus shows up on my server, I just delete it; it never had a chance to > infect anything.
Maybe yes, maybe no . . . > Here are the fruits of two minutes of research using only dpkg -p, which > you could just as easily have done yourself: Of course, I have already done this; and if those descriptions were adequate to the task -- as with much software available via apt -- I would not have made my post. <snip /> > We have now limited the selection to: > > clamav and/or clamav-daemon > exiscan > sanitizer > > That should be a small enough set that you can just do a bit more > research to figure out which one best suits your needs. <snip /> Part of my research, in this case, is soliciting testimonials from users. Hopefully, with enough user response and elbow grease, an informed decision will just come to me ;> Thank you, anyway, for your candid opinion . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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