[NTLUG:Discuss] Anti-Virus/Anti-Spamming for Sendmail on Linux

[Bug Hunter]

  another solution is at 
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/sanitizer-intro.html

  This works on the theory that any .pif, .scr, .exe, etc. file is a 
probable virus and renames it to something that will not execute.  It 
"defangs" it.

  Then, if you really want to run the file, you rename it and run it.  99% 
of the users can't do that, of the 1% that can, they don't blame you when 
they infect themselves, for the most part.

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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, JR Newsletters wrote:

> Bob Byron wrote:
> 
> > I am using RedHat 8.0.
> >  
> > I want to add anti-virus and anti-spamming software to our email server.
> > I am currently using sendmail.  To clarify, this is going on the 
> > server and
> > not on individual machines. 
> 
> I'll be interested in this solution as well.  I've been researching 
> adding an anti-virus program to my sendmail program, but I'm not happy 
> with what I've found.
> 
> The only really free solutions involved clam antivirus, or amavis 
> antivirus....however you need to get a forwarding script to link the 
> antivirus program to sendmail/procmail's handling.  I've been trying a 
> couple of scripts, but they don't play well together at all.  The other 
> antivirus solutions I've found involved some $$$/yr., and, usually, two 
> copies of sendmail running while adding some sort of cryptic rule to 
> sendmail.cf (whatever happened to changing sendmail.mc instead?).
> 
> I like clam antivirus....It even updates it definitions base at times 
> you specify (I do mine twice a day).  I keep hearing conflicting 
> opinions though for if clam antivirus is ready or not yet to be used in 
> any type of a 'work' environment.
>