Anti virus question
Martin Hepworth
martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Fri Mar 26 10:07:41 GMT 2004
Simon
Bouncing spam/virus alerts for viruses that fake sender addreses is a
bad idea(tm) and just cloggs the 'net with crud.
http://www.attrition.org/security/rant/av-spammers.html
for a rant on the subject..
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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Simon Dick wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 08:26, Dave Tiger wrote:
>
>>Hi List,
>>
>>I am looking for a solution to catch and deal with virus laden emails sent
>>to or from my FreeBSD email box.
>>
>>Server Details:
>>
>>FreeBSD 4.7 stable
>>Postfix 2.06 (working with no probs for over a year now)
>>Cyrus 2.1.11 SASL (Again over a years worth of fault free service)
>>Delivering mail for about 1000 users
>>
>>Top averages 0.01 (donÿt know if thatÿs useful)
>>
>>I want to add a global (non user specific) virus protection solution to my
>>box but I am very, very confused on what should be installed, used and
>>relevant config changes.
>>
>>As I understand it so far I have to install a virus scanner and a filter
>>prog to achieve what I want, is that so.
>>
>>Can the list suggest a solution for me and some guidance or url pointers to
>>installation and config help.
>>
>>Some step by step instruction would really be helpful.
>>
>>Is it better to stick with a port solution or compile from source?
>>
>>I am understandably nervous mucking about with a live, fully working system,
>>so please be patient with what may be some basic future questions.
>>
>>Thank you in advance for any help you may give.
>
>
> I use a combination of Exim (via exiscan), f-prot (free for non
> commercial use) and SpamAssassin. I used to bounce viruses and spam, but
> recently I noticed that yahoo treats them as reasons to halt your yahoo
> group account so I'm now letting them in but freezing them before they
> get delivered.
>
>
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