[ILUG] Clamav

[ger]

> > I am just enquiring about its effectiveness in dealing with new virual
> > infections and old viri as it seems that the database does not have more
>
>Just curious - what do you care about old men ?

Have had mail attachments with infections of Melissia LOVELETTER and 
Ethan.a this year.

> > then 20,000. I am currently thinking of replacing a setup of Amavis and
> > McAffe because of license constraints. Each windows Mailbox user requires a
> > client license on their Desktop which makes it quite expensive. They are
> > other commercial scanners but as this was GPL i am more inclined to use it.
>
>For those looking for a proprietary virus scanner, I can recommend Sophos.
>They have a server side scanner which sits in front of your mail server
>process and works just nicely. As Sophos also sells Windows desktop scanners,
>they keep up with all the latest viruses and I think it's quite reasonably
>priced - something round 1K / annum for ~50 users.
A better price then Mcafee which is 2.5 k/2 years ~25 Users and you have to 
pay per user.

Vexira Mail Armor seems to be the best price of the commercials €199 per 
Domain max of 6000 mailboxes.
I am possibly going to Vexira on my sites together with clamav for the 
coming year at which point the clamav database may be more in line with 
commercial vendors database. There is a sigtool utility which allows one to 
create signatures for detect viri. These can be applied locally and 
submitted for inclusion in database. Again the success of clamav will 
depend on us submitting signatures.

Regards Ger