[Mimedefang] Anti-virus software

ADNET Ghislain gadnet at aqueos.com
Tue Mar 1 16:46:18 EST 2005


>I just took a like at File::Scan, but their site does not list
>FreeBSD as supported system; only Linux. :(
>
>ClamAV, which I am now testing, works as advertised. But I read
>you get a "ClamAV installation is OUTDATED" message whenever
>the update program decides you need a newer version.
>This will run on a production server; I cannot halt things every
>week to upgrade clamav. Still, clamav seems the most
>promising so far.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Mark
>
upgrading from FreeBSD ports takes only a small numbers of minutes ( 3 
from the 82 -> 83 upgrade i made on a 800Mhz, 2go ram freebsd 4.x box) 
so i think you could manage to put this into a "not too loaded" windows 
quite easely. At least if not on a very  higly loaded server. The second 
solution is perhaps to run the clamd on different sockets then the  
restart of mimedefang could make the switch, after that you uninstall 
the old version . But this way require some tweaks as the ports will not 
let you install without uninstalling the old version first.  The package 
runs fine, it's just that when they change the format of the virus DB 
that you really need to run and upgrade the daemon, minor upgrade does 
not REQUIRE the update, it's just better for your safety or the perf 
depending of what the upgrade answer to. :)

best regards,
Ghislain.




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