Re: Free antivirus
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:28:48 -0200
Antonio Alberto Lobato <tomlobato@ig.com.br> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> After a search on google and mailing lists archives, doubts
> remains...
>
> Is there available a free and good antivirus for run on
> GNU/Linux (but searching windows viruses)? My needs is to
> protect a network of 90 windows machines where the GNU/Linux
> is the gateway/firewall/proxy-cache/ftp/pop3/smtp server (A
> duron 1300MHz). So, Id like to have hints about where to
> install this antivirus: filtering proxy-cache traffic, or
> scanning the pop3/smtp server, or both? The pop3/smtp
> servers here are just for internal mail exchange, so users
> continue to sending/retrieving mail to/from external
> mailboxes such yahoo, hotmail. Is it possible to scan
> viruses for such external mailboxes? If there is not a good
> free solution, can you give hints about good options for
> proprietary ones?
>
>
>
> Thank you
> Tom
>
I use ClamAV. It scans email. It scans files upon access. It's
available from www.backports.org and works very well. Besides, it's
free.
--
Raquel
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