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mikek 
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 Topic: Open Source AVPosted: 14 September 2005 at 10:47am |
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Anti-Virus in Spamfilter is great, but Norman is just too expensive... How about adding support for an open source AV scanner, like ClamAV? http://sosdg.org/clamav-win32/index.php Cheers, Mike |
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LogSat
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Posted: 14 September 2005 at 8:01pm |
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Mike,
Currently there's no plans to support open source AV scanners in addition to Norman. In the future that may change, but we can't say if and when that will happen. |
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Posted: 20 September 2005 at 2:10pm |
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I have found that our current AV client actually seems to work quite well in this context. It seems as if Spamfilter drops the attachements to disk temporarily while it is forwarding emails. this action triggers our AV to scan the file and delete it if there is a virus. I could be wrong on this
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LogSat
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Posted: 20 September 2005 at 4:04pm |
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John,
You are correct. SpamFilter by design caches it to the hard drive, leaving time for whatever anti-virus solution the amdinistrator has installed to protect the server's filesystem to catch the virus. If the file is deleted by the antivirus, SpamFilter is designed to understand this took place and will "cleanup" after itself removing the related temporary files and continuing to work. |
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mikek
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Posted: 21 September 2005 at 2:26am |
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Thanks for the tip, will try this out, since we already have a Norman server version on this machine (which can't be used by SpamFilter directly without having to pay to full the SpamFilter AV license :-( ) Will I see an entry in the log file when this happens? Edited by mikek |
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