Topic: Difference between ClamAV and Amavis-ng

[Erika]

Hi,

Can someone explain me what is the difference beetween ClamAV and Amavis-ng.
Are they 2 different things, or are they dependent ?

I searched in the forum, but i didn't find anything (except they are very often associated)...

I'm looking for a free antivirus, since I already run an antispam daemon (spamassassin).

Any help is welcome

Erika

[Randall Perry]

ClamAV is an antivirus scanner.
It can scan your hard drive for viruses.

Amavis inserts itself ahead of the MTA so that it intercepts email and then pipes it through the ClamAV for scanning.

The best howto is at pagefault.org.

[Erika]

Thanks for your comments.

I didn't see the difference between the two, I know understand why they are two different things ))

[Dan Williams]

I can not figure out how to exclude a directory in the clam scan scheduled cron job.
Each night a full scan happens which is great, but I wish it ti exclude /mnt.
Dan

[Brian]

I installed ClamAV + Amavis-ng according to the how to at pagefault.org.  It is working great and catching viruses in emails.  
I am wondering if ClamAV is also scanning my hard drive (ibays, home drives) or if I need to enable this separately.  If it is scanning my drive where can I find the logs?  
I am using v5.6.
Hope this is not a stupid question.  Thanks in advance for any help.

[Randall Perry]

To exclude a directory, edit your /etc/clamav.conf
add the following line

ClamukoExcludePath /mnt

You should be OK then.

[Randall Perry]

During the configuration, you get asked for an administrative email address.  This is where it sends the results to.

If you enable verbose logging, then you can also
cat /var/log/clamav/clamd.log

[Dan Williams]

Hi Randy,
Do you not need Clamuko installed for this though?
I did a search and do not have that on my e-smith?
I installed Clam as per Damiens pages at pagefault.org.
dan