On Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:27, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
wrote:
> > > Scanning at SMTP level is not practical in most cases.
> >
> > Why not? I'm doing virus scanning (ClamAV) and SpamAssassin at SMTP time
> > on incoming mail for about 20,000 users (about 250 messages/minute). I
> > picked up a pair of 1U rackmount servers (each under 1800 Euro last year)
> > for this, and there's lots of excess capacity (which is the way I
> > like it).
>> I hope you aren't providing too many guarantees, as Clam can be extremely
> flaky and not recognise a lot of the more recent viruses in the wild. It
Well it caught Netsky, and other recent ones for me pretty quick. I update the
AV database hourly.
> also eats up CPU compared to some of the commercial options.
Yes, unfortunately it does seem pretty CPU intensive, and getting more so as
the AV database grows.
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