On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:09:11PM -0800 or thereabouts, Darik Horn wrote:
Hi Darik,
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:
How does one run it properly with Exim? I had it scanning my MailDir boxes, and
Mutt didn't like it doing that. After a scan, Mutt wouldn't be able to
give me an accurate readout of new messages. Seems Mutt thinks each
folder scanned, has already been accessed by Mutt.
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.
Thanks for the valuable information, Darik.