[plug] email virus scanning

[Adrian Woodley]

You may also have some joy with Sophos Antivirus (pick the re-seller :P 
). It has pretty good linux support and you can plug it into pretty much 
anything (with a little scripting) that stores file - ie Squid, Exim, 
Samba, etc. Plus, if you get licenses for your workstations, the server 
is automatically covered. Just a though.

Regards,
Adrian

Bernard wrote:

>When I get around to it, a new gateway will be in order and due to a
>virus scare today on numerous windows machines, it'll be having
>email virus scanning implemented. I've had a look around and decided
>to use MailScanner (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner).
>Anybody have any opinions on this or known catch-me-outs?
>
>I'm curious as how it uses McAfee. After much scrounging I found the
>elnx4140.zip file from McAfee's FTP server, not mentioned on their
>website. It contains a library called liblnxfv.so which I take it
>is the scanning engine. I know I will find out when I install the
>gateway, but do I need anything else such as an executable of some
>sort to do the scanning?
>
>On a different note, one Windows ME machine downloaded 150MB worth
>of updates over two nights without even telling anybody. Grrrr. Bye
>bye $25 of downloads. Squid now blocks windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
>Anyone with Me machines on the network, beware.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bernard.
>