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Open Source Anti-Virus

Currently I'm using procmail to nuke any stray attachments (.bat, .pif, .scr, etc.), but procmail is strictly MUA stuff. I want to set up scanning at the MTA which, when combined with the usual method of scanning at the desktop, would give a layered approach to combatting viruses for my users.

Here is my research:

Free virus scanners

ClamAV — this seems to be pretty good.
http://www.openantivirus.org — really neat. Also really out of date. Use something else, in fact.

Milters

http://www.amavis.org
- or better yet, amavis-new