[Mimedefang] Question about Virus Scanners

[Lucas Albers]

Chris Gauch said:

> I've been using ClamAV in conjunction with MIMEDefang for many months now
> and have not really encountered any problems with viruses getting through
> the gateway mail server.  Since ClamAV regularly sees updates to its virus
> database (sometimes several times per day), I created a cron.hourly script
> that runs the "freshclam" script every hour in order to ensure current DAT
> files.
Better to run the freshclam daemon so it randomizes your access.
So you do not overload their servers on every hour.
Or run it 10 minutes after every hour.

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana