[Mimedefang] ClamAV effectiveness (was Re: MIMEDefang Digest, Vol 132, Issue 3)

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:17:13 -0500
Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:

> Is there a virus scanner you'd recommend for use with MIMEDefang on
> Linux?

No, not really.  I'd recommend not running Windows which reduces your
exposure to viruses by 99%.

And rather than any sort of virus scanner, I'd simply block all EXE,
SCR, PIF, etc. files completely, including if they're inside archive
files.

Any signature-based virus scanner is going to miss new viruses by
definition.

Regards,

David.