please advise antivirus free packing for sendmail

Dear all,

My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus package for such email server, many thanks.

Regards,
Simon

In comp.os.linux.networking Simon lee <(E-Mail Removed)>:
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> Dear all,

> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail.
> Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free
> antivirus package for such email server, many thanks.

- RH 8 is EOL for some time, get something recent.
- Get rid of your MUA, M$-Outcrap is target number one for lots
of rat-/malware.
- Check out Clamav for antivirus.
- Check out Mailscanner to "marry" clamav with sendmail

Good luck

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Hallo, Simon,

Du (simonlee) meintest am 06.11.06:

> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
> package for such email server, many thanks.

Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
works fine.

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

In comp.mail.sendmail Helmut Hullen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hallo, Simon,
>
> Du (simonlee) meintest am 06.11.06:
>
>> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
>> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
>> package for such email server, many thanks.
>
> Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
> works fine.
>

Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner. You should install them both, work like
charm. And even further: SpamAssassin integrates as well.

Regards,

Peter

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Hallo, Peter,

Du (nobody) meintest am 06.11.06:

>>> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
>>> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
>>> package for such email server, many thanks.
>>
>> Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
>> works fine.
>>

> Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.

Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
testing).

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

In comp.mail.sendmail Helmut Hullen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hallo, Peter,
>
> Du (nobody) meintest am 06.11.06:
>
>> Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>
> Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
> testing).
>

It rejected it because you probable sent an .com file through it.

Kind regards,

Peter

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Peter Boosten wrote:

>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>>
>>Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
>>testing).
>>
>
>
> It rejected it because you probable sent an .com file through it.

If it not only rejects but also detects the eicar virus, like
Helmut says, there be a virus scanner running. But that is _not_
MimeDefang. MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.

But MimeDefang is capable to use a whole range of virus
scanners if they are installed.

Some of the compile-time configuration options of MimeDefang are:

--disable-anti-virus Do not look for anti-virus scanners
--disable-antivir Do not include support for H+BEDV antivir
--disable-vexira Do not include support for Central Command
Vexira
--disable-uvscan Do not include support for NAI uvscan
--disable-bdc Do not include support for Bitdefender bdc
--disable-sweep Do not include support for Sophos sweep
--disable-trend Do not include support for Trend
Filescanner/Interscan
--disable-AvpLinux Do not include support for AVP AvpLinux
--disable-kavscanner Do not include support for Kaspersky
kavscanner
--disable-aveclient Do not include support for AVP5 aveclient
--disable-clamav Do not include support for clamav
--disable-fsav Do not include support for F-Secure Anti-Virus
--disable-csav Do not include support for Command Software
CSAV
--disable-fprot Do not include support for F-prot Anti-Virus
--disable-sophie Do not include support for Sophie
--disable-nvcc Do not include support for Nvcc
--disable-clamd Do not include support for clamd
--disable-trophie Do not include support for Trophie

If one or more of the above virus scanners are installed and you
didn't disable those scanners in the MimeDefang configuration
then they will be used by MimeDefang. But MimeDefang cannot scan
for virusses without help of external scanners.

Regards,

Kees.

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In comp.mail.sendmail Kees Theunissen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Peter Boosten wrote:
>
>>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>
> MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.
>

That's what I wrote ;-)

Peter


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Peter Boosten wrote:
> In comp.mail.sendmail Kees Theunissen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Peter Boosten wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>>
>> MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.
>>
>
>
> That's what I wrote ;-)

Yes, and I confirmed that.
I posted my reaction because you wrote: "It rejected it
because you probable sent an .com file through it."

I think it is quite likely that Helmut _has_ a virusscanner
running, and that it is started by MimeDefang. It
probably isn't just a rejection of all .com files.

But it is for sure _not_ MimeDefang doing the scan.

Regards,

Kees.

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Hallo, Kees,

Du (theuniss) meintest am 06.11.06:

> If it not only rejects but also detects the eicar virus, like
> Helmut says, there be a virus scanner running. But that is _not_
> MimeDefang. MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.

> But MimeDefang is capable to use a whole range of virus
> scanners if they are installed.

Ok - it's a small difference. But that's linux: one job, one tool.

(especially in this case: I can use more than one virus scanner
withinh mimedefang)

Viele Grüße!
Helmut