-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My Debian Sarge machine with Amavis-new and ClamAV is the best choice for antivirus protection. My machine configuration PIII 933MHZ with 128MB RAM scans and delivers around 200 messages a day with ease.
rrs On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:14:39 +0530 Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > So I though I'd be l33t and scan all my incoming mail for viruses at > point of entry. Second step of being l33t is being lazy, so just > enabled clamav-milter, since all the packages were already installed > on my state-of-the-art bleeding-edge Red Hat 9 system and was ready to > go. > > Initially this worked like a charm -- no more incoming viruses, just > terse notifications of the form ``Found virus, blocked virus''. > Yippee, I thought to myself, this rocks! > > Unfortunately time, with its propensity to remove rose-tints from > pictures, had a different story to tell... > > First of all, clamav-milter doesn't quarantine messages, it just > bounces them back to the sender. Now this has two issues; firstly, > viruses tend to spoof the From address in e-mails, so some poor bugger > sitting in Latvia and running GNU/Hurd is getting triumphant e-mails > from me saying, ``Thought you could infect me, huh? Well, sucks to > you and my Daddy can beat your Daddy!''. Not Done. Next, I'm > subscribed to mailing lists that distribute vulnerability and exploit > code, so I often get legitimate mails that contain virus signatures. > Unfortunately, I don't get those messages anymore -- milter has > already bounced them back. > > Secondly, clamav-milter is ghastly slow. Sloooooooow. It takes up to > a minute to deliver one message to me, and for me that's completely > unacceptable -- I get ~400 messages a day in my inbox and watching > fetchmail crawl in a Konsole window is too painful to bear. > > Ergo, I'll brave the viruses. Already disabled clamav-milter, tried > to install Amavisd, which itself has a list of dependencies that > reaches from here to the moon. Will install once the weather is a bit > cooler (say, December 2010). In the meantime any suggestions on my > problems are welcome. > > - -- Raju > - -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > It is the mind that moves > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> > > iD8DBQFAcjWvyWjQ78xo0X8RAp8jAJ9zQASOILuGdAwTxSD1M5s4UsydoACfVoTv > 6vByE3Xaz39bxDeUxnIoMrE= > =6nuV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 GPG Key ID: 0x04F130BC - ------ FORTUNE ! YOW!! The land of the rising SONY!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAcjhq4Rhi6gTxMLwRAnILAKCWUl5CG/PlD8OGq0RY1GX1abtPcACfUPs6 R0vSrzb6XlOcAF0chSqs9cs= =7uk1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
