Charles Gregory wrote:
Oh, I want that too. But until it's available (or someone just calls the script "the scanner" :), clamav is a great tool, and worlds better than NO protection.[...]
Dang. I'm sorry, I've been repeating myself so often that I've gotten
tired of spelling it out each time. What I want is an anti-virus program
that works in a single 'pass' without writing stuff out to disk.
I assume the single pass requirement is for performance reasons?
Since that's the ONLY mode bitdefender works in anyhow....
Is bitdefender freeware? Didn't look like it when I visited the site...
"Free for personal use" -- at least free enough to be included in Debian.
I put anomy in BECAUSE my users (family mostly) lack those skills. I have it set to scan, then allow through if it passes the scan, or quarantine and direct users to ask for help if not. It can just as easily drop infected messages. I can see this depending largely on the userbase though. Still, I'd lean towards scanning SOMEWHERE, regardless of how.Clamav also works well from anomy sanitizer, which I call fromI've not wanted to us anomy sanitizer because not all our users have the
procmail to defang, etc.
technical skills to properly interpret the output. So for the most part,
anything we have to install has to be conservative and very simple to use.
And yes, that was a *challenge* with SpamAssassin. Our users have accessHere's a thought: Allow users to "scan for viruses" or not. If they opt for scanning, call clamav (or sanitizer), configured to drop infected. If not, just don't call it. If using sanitizer, different procmail rules could call it specifying different configs for content (defang html), virus scanning, etc. depending on the options checked by the user (assuming you've got a web checklist somewhere).
to two settings: The 'hits required' and whether to merely 'flag' or
actually delete mail tagged as spam. Seems to be working fairly well.....
An option anyhow. Good luck, and let us know if you find a more email-aware solution! I want one too.
- Bob
