Topic: Free virus scanner?

[Trampas]

Hi,

I have a e-smith box setup as server/gateway and I was wondering if their was a virus scanner for the e-smith which is free (as in beer)?

Thanks
Trampas

[brian read]

ClamAv is Open Source, see

http://clamav.elektrapro.com/

and Damien's howto on:

http://www.pagefault.org/misc/

he also covers using AMavis-ng for mail scanning (using ClamAv), but I am still working on getting this to work (lack of time).

http://www.pagefault.org/e-smith/howto/amavis_clam.html

cheers

Brian

[Nate]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14512.msg55396#msg55396
might interest you.

[Kelvin]

Hi all,

I was also hoping someone might work out how to integrate qmail-scanner and ClamAV for SME. Damien's how-to works, of course. I was interested in the qmail-scanner approach because qmail-scanner can also do other things, such as copy all mails for auditing / security / archiving purpose - something I was trying to get working for someone). If Amavis can also do this, I'm sorry I missed that and I'd be very interested to know how.

Kelvin

[Gary]

Brian - thanks for the tip on ClamAV and aMavis.
Followed the howto and it works like a dream - only snag I had was installing Perl Mail Tools 1.5 as it conlicted with v.1.4 which was already on my system. Just uninstalled that, tried again and bingo. Ran the Eicar test virus through it and it caught it.
I'm unsure how often or if at all the virus database is updated though- maybe I'll look through the conf file and see if there's anything there.

[brian read]

On the previous version I was seeing an update about once every two weeks, I've also got Clamav 0.50 now working, but haven't yet got to Amavis-ng, glad to hear that it worked for you anyway.

Thanks to Damien for the contribution.

Cheers

Brian

[brian read]

Incidentally I modified the sample cron job scripts so that the update also sends an email, and also so that the log files are stored in /var/log which means thay are visible in the log file panel of Server Manager.

I also only scan the /home directory (recursively).

Cheers

Brian