Re: Antivirus for CLI
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:20:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 04:26 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> clamav probably will help along with clamav-milter to filter e-mail.
>> Lastly, nmh installed for everybody to use because you get out of mbox
>> format with that. If clamav finds a virus in someone's mbox file and
>> quarrantines that whole file they just lost all of their email.
(...)
Well, regardless the message format in use (mbox, maildir, nmh...) you
can configure (at server level) an imap/pop3 account for every user
(e.g., "user+virus@example.com") where to direct the malware that has
been detected for that account.
OTOH I would rather stick to the usual and well-known message formats
like maildir or mbox unless I had any specific requirement for not using
them.
> I don't like clamav for several reasons,
(...)
Can you at least list "one"? :-)
The only drawback I can mention is about its accuracy (when compared to
another payware and bloatware anti-malware solutions), but for e-mail
scanning or samba it does a nice job mainly because of its perfect
integration within a linux environment.
An AV solution in linux has to be seen as an additional defense for the
windows boxes but not the only one, meaning windows users have to have
their own anti-malware software properly setup and running, either
locally of using a server based deployment.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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