[Mimedefang] Using more than one virus scan

[Lucas Albers]

Use as many as you can afford cpu and financially.
If you run ramdisk and have fast cpu.
My external mx runs a fast cpu and having 4 virus scanners does not add
any noticable delay time.
Depends on your mail volume.

The only one I know of that is free and effective is clamav.
You can slip by without a virus scanner, (at least you could) and just
block harmful extensions and defang html.
My internal just defangs all html content, removes activex/object/java and
similar.
If using mcafee download extra.dat daily dat files updates for better
protection.


Mathew Thomas said:
> Hi,
>
> We are currently using only one virus scanner, uvscan by McaFee on our
> mail gateways. I was wondering is it a good idea
> to use another one along with the uvscan? I am thinking of using a freely
> available one like Clam Antivirus. Any other
> suggestions?
>
> How the additional virus scanner going to affect the CPU , mail delay,
> etc?
>
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