There is an awesome unix-based open source antivirus program called
clamav.  It's at http://clamav.sourceforge.net.  The virus definitions
are updated regularly and it was the first antivirus program that
detected this latest SCO virus (whatever they decided to call it -- it's
like naming astroids, I guess).  Anyway, I used another nifty filtering
program called mimedefang (http://www.mimedefang.org) to integrate
clamav into sendmail.  Now I have attachment filtering based on file
extension, and also basic antivirus scanning, right there inside
sendmail.  Mimedefang uses the milter api, which allows it to do things
like rejecting connections based on content, black lists, etc.  

So far it is working very well.

-- 
Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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