You can use the opensource ClamAV with your mail system with say Exim +
Exiscan patch as mail server or Sendmail, Postfix etc etc. It will scan
your file systems but WILL NOT remove viruses from those files for you.
You may want to look at commercial packages such as Sophos for this, if
they support these features.
Cheers,
Aly.
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:39, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Graham Leggett said:
> > Richard Crawford wrote:
> >
> >> Linux is not susceptible to the W32/Sobig.F worm, so I wouldn't worry
> >> about it.
> >
> > A Linux mailserver is susceptible to running out of disk space due to
> > the worm, which has happened to me twice.
> >
> > Best advice is to install a virus killer on your mailsystem.
>
> This is true... though I understood the original post to express concern
> that their Linux computer would be actually infected with the worm.
>
> But yeah, the worm can make traffic increase to the point where the server
> is overrun with activity.
>
>
> Sliante,
> Richard S. Crawford
>
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