Re: [Nolug] Spam and Virus Protection

We are using sendmail with MIMEDefang + Spamassassin + ClamAV
(http://clamav.elektrapro.com) on Redhat advanced server with a Novell
eDirectory LDAP backend (also on Linux). Everything but eDir is
opensource. MIMEDefang is the key, it has explicit support for
Spamassassin and ClamAV, and well as a load of other commercial and
non-commercial virus scanners. If anything, look at the list of virus
scanners that MIMEDefang supports, it's pretty impressive.

The ClamAV db was dormant for a while, but recently since BugBear it's
been getting updated almost daily. It's been pretty good at stopping
virii. We still block dangerous attachment extensions though, and don't
use Outlook very much, so that helps a lot also.

-ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, J. Kent Busbee, Jr. wrote:
> I've heard a lot about SpamAssassin, but not much about virus protection
> programs.  I am looking for a solution which will do both (together or
> separate programs if they can work together).  Any suggestions?  I ran
> across something called Messagewall that supposedly does both.  Anyone
> heard of that?  Do you think that a open source program would be
> effective in detecting viruses or that I should go with a commerce
> solution?  
> 
> Ideally, I'm looking for something that scans emails for spam and virus
> before the user can pop their email.  Since most viruses come through
> email, this should reduce the need for pc protection programs such as
> Norton.
> 
> Thanks ahead of time for any input.
> 
> Kent Busbee (buz)
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