My big success in server admin over the last month has been solving this
perenial problem. We were getting so much spam and now so many SoBig virii
that it wa becoming a huge problem at three sites I am involved in.

This is what I did, it's free and works perfectly.

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Install ClamAV - You don't need Sophos, OpenVirus is excellent and free.
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/7.3/postfix2/clamav/

Install Spamassassin
http://useast.spamassassin.org/released/RPMs/

Remove the cron jobs that run and update spamassassin and freshclam,
MailScanner does this anyway and more frequently
Do not customize spamassasin or clamav, MailScanner only uses the binaries
and libraries, ignores the configs

Install MailScanner fromn RPM - run install.sh
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.22-5.rp
m.tar.gz

Guide:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/linux.shtml


Enable Virus Scanning in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

Make sure you have disabled sendmail as MailScanner starts it in a wrapper.

Should work beautifully. Watch the logs, check the virus databases are
gettting updated hourly, make sure mail is being scanned.

I also installed f-prot worstation (free) and enabled in MailScanner, it
will use it to scan the mail also, if you are really paranoid. 
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html


Chris Mason
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264 497-5670 Fax: 264 497-8463
www.netconcepts.ai




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