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Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)



On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:30:09AM -0400, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:56:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of.
> > >
> > > My budget is small, maybe $100.  
> > > My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply 
> > > antivirus scanning?
> > 
> > This is the one I've been mailing to idiots who bounce viruses instead
> > of rejecting them...
> > 
> > http://ursine.ca/article.pl?sid=04/04/11/1127234
> 
> If one has exim4-daemon-heavy and denies any MS executeables with 
> this in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data:
> deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here
>   demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:scr:vbs:url:zip
> 
> Isn't that good enough for small Windows networks and users that don't
> use zip files?  (my users certainly don't need .exe files, .bat files, etc...)
> 
> Or should I learn how to use clamav?
> Just wondering if I am missing something. 

A quick follow up to my post.  I AM missing something.  

Right after I sent the above message (figures), I learned about

http://www.testvirus.org/

and my system failed about 10 of the tests.

So I better get clamav installed and configured.



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