[Mimedefang] Re: Anti-virus software

[Ian Mitchell]

> From: Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Anti-virus software
>
> Probably because they've still not hit a 1.0 release yet and it's very
> heavily in development.  It'll still work if you don't upgrade, you
> just don't get the new signatures.
>

Um, not that I do this very often, especially on Security matters?!? But
to quote err... Microsoft... (cringe)

Law #8 - An out of date virus scanner is only marginally better than no
virus scanner at all
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/10imlaws.mspx

> From: Scott Plumlee <scott at plumlee.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Anti-virus software
>
> I've been running ClamAV for the past 3 versions (.80 to .83) for
> serveral months on a small server with about 25 users.  The upgrade
> process is somewhat of a pain, as it seems to be fairly frequent, and
> you will get that message that you are outdated when a new release comes
> out.

I'm in a very similar situation only I have fewer users. I've had very
little trouble in upgrading clamav on my systems as I utilize the up2date
functionality of the Redhat'ish OS's that I run. If you set up the
up2date/yum to keep up with the DAG repository you'll be updated on a
pretty short order. Now of course, I don't rely on automatic updates and
updates are done manually, and as well beaten on this mailing list, you
will need to make a few minor permissions adjustments (or sendmail
configuration changes) in order to get the DAG package to play well with
Mimedefang/Sendmail. DAG has builds for Redhat Enterprise, Fedora 1-3, and
many more. But DAG also has packages that may conflict with system
packages from time to time, so be careful in your configuration.