[Mimedefang] Cleaning up antivirus integration

Josh Kelley joshkel at gmail.com
Fri May 4 10:00:07 EDT 2007


On 5/2/07, Dave O'Neill <dmo at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> 1) what AV engines do you actually use with MD?  Some of the AV
>    integration code in mimedefang.pl looks fairly stale, so if a
>    backend is truly obsolete (for example, openantivirus.org) I'd like
>    to remove it.

We use clamd and NAI's uvscan.  We call uvscan ourselves, using the
code at http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?FasterNaiUvscan, to
keep a persistent copy running and speed up scans a fair bit.

Josh Kelley



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