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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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