Virus checkers for e-mail servers

Rob Brandt yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue May 14 16:55:01 2002


>The real issue is to find virus checking programs that are Open Source.
>Most of the virus checking frameworks, such as amavis, will integrate with
>YDL since YDL supports the same mail server programs as i386 linux (eg
>sendmail, exim, postfix etc.).  However, the work of checking each email
>for viri/viruses is usually done by an external tool.  Most of these tools
>are only available for i386 linux.  There is some work to develop an Open
>Source virus checker but I'm not sure of its status.   Iain

I found http://www.openantivirus.org .  It's open source, java based. 
Anyone try it on YDL yet?

Rob

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