[Mimedefang] )What AV scanners do you use? (was Re: Any Sophie users out there?

[wbrown at e1b.org]

DFS wrote on 03/20/2014 03:04:07 PM:

> Post-Cisco, ClamAV seems to have greatly declined in usefulness.
> It catches hardly anything anymore... anyone else experiencing this?
> 
> In my experience, most of the commercial AV scanners for Linux are 
horrible.
> They often use undocumented wire protocols making it 
difficult/impossible
> to use them efficiently from MIMEDefang.  The "MIMEDefang-friendliest" 
one
> I know of is F-PROTD version 6.
> 
> On our hosted anti-spam offering, we simply block outright *.EXE, *.SCR 
etc
> whether directly attached or within zip files, RAR files, etc.  So far
> no-one has complained.

We haven't seen an increase in virii detected by McAfee or Symantec on 
servers downstream from our CanIt system.  Maybe that's because blocking 
the unsafe extensions kills them before we even call ClamAV.

Or are there fewer infections being sent by mail, rather focusing more on 
phishing emails?





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