Posting the filescan instructions for this week... Amavis will not work at all without a virus scanner to do the actual work of the scan.. Here are the details for Filescan.. (again.:-) rgds Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have just swapped to trend viruscan for linux... I thought I'd mention all the links and stuff, so that people can search the archives here if they want to know how it is done. Here is the url to download it, ftp://ftp.antivirus.com/products/freetools/ (the address listed in the "openantivirus" readme didn't work for me, but this one did... download filescanlinux.tar (when you untar it, it has install instructions and a pdf file) If the scanner install gives you a message that it wont' install because you don't have redhat release 6, (and you do have a modern linux)I got that message with mandrake 7.2, edit /etc/issue (create it if you don't already have one, go into /etc and type 'touch issue') and put the words "release 6" in it somewhere, you can delete it after install. (thats how the install program works out what version of linux you have) pretty lame method thinks me, but its a good thing that its lame if you don't have redhat. I have it working flawlessly on Mandrake and I don't think there would be much problem getting it working on other distro's. Here is the link to get the latest engine update, (the version I have now is "Virus Scanner v3.1") http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/ Go to the Interscan viruswall table and look in the linux box. download that tarball. open the tarball, and copy the file in it into /etc/iscan, overwrite the file of the same name that's in there.(it might not be a bad idea to backup the old one in case there are problems.) thats your engine updated to their latest version. If for some reason the web manager pattern update feature doesn't work, (it didn't for me, think its a isp problem, we have a strange proxy.,) go here: http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp choose the linux tarball and you have the latest pattern file. Thats it,, This is a very comprhensive scanner for a freebie... much better then the network associates vscan I was using before,,, (admitadly an old version). the web interface is an exceptional feature... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] anti-virus program In reply to Valerie's words, written Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:02:40 -0400 >does anyone know a free good anti-virus program for linux? I guess you should look for amavis. It will track down the Wine-dows virusses. Paul -- How depressing... Nobody's after my job http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.2
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