Re: AntiVirus for sendmail

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Orpheus (orpheus@metempsychosis.com):
> does anyone have any opinions for the best combination of a sendmail and
> antivirus solution for 3.2 (current or stable)? this is for a home network
> of basically 3 computers and i'm not to keen on $600 AUD + for RAV or
> Vexira, plus I'd like some opinions on how they go
> (stability/effectiveness/etc.) in the wild.
> 
> I currently use F-Secure for my XP machines and am very happy with it ...
> looks like their gateway AV is only for Linux though, so I'm not confident
> with compile issues..

Let's recall too, that there are no "EMail viruses."
There are "Outlook Viruses."

This was key when clients complained that they had to spend $5,000
to protect their email.  Eudora doesn't execute code for you; nor
Mozilla, PINE or Mutt.  Outbreak with rummage through badly broken
MIME, seek out and run code that other clients don't even see as
attachments.  Plus, Outlook will sometimes use an MS Proprietary
attachment type that changes depending on version-du-jour.  Good
luck seeing some of those - they slip through anything that looks
for MIME and uuencoded stuff..

So if you have 1 Windows machine, you need AV for that anyway.
If it can check all incoming mail attachments (hooking into the
mail client perhaps), then you should be set.


You want to look for something that can get updated IMMEDIATELY,
and that's where the McAfee and Trend tools were worth paying
for at companies.  I've used the Sendmail MILTER versions of those,
but Sendmail (Inc) only supports a couple OSs.