Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

[Darik Horn <dajhorn@vanadac.com>]

ClamAV is the best virus scanner that is free software.  On a 
Debian/woody computer, you should use a backport of a recent version 
like this:

http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/clamav/

If you wish to purchase a commercial product, then I would recommend 
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux:

http://www.f-secure.com/estore/fsavlinuxwks.shtml

It behaves well on Debian systems, and updates have always been timely.

A demo is not available, but you can purchase a license online without 
having to make a deal with a commissioned sales droid.  (They recently 
doubled the price of a license, however, so FSAV may not currently be 
the best value.)

I've written a lightweight wrapper that allows the workstation version 
of the FSAV scanner to be used as a pipe filter for mail scanning:

http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/projects/fsavp/

I use maildrop, but it works with procmail too.


Steve Allen wrote:

> What antivirus scanner available in Debian Woody, do you learned folks
> recommend? I'm running Exim to a smarthost, with local delivery with
> Fetchmail/Procmail etc.
>
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