Virus scanners with amavis and fedora

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Fri Apr 14 17:02:15 CEST 2017


On Fri, 2017-04-14 at 09:00 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Dino Edwards
> <dino.edwards at mydirectmail.net> wrote:
> > What problem are you having with Macro Viruses and PDF spam?
> 
> They're not being caught properly :-)
> 
> The clamav filters just aren't updated sufficiently. And sophos is a
> joke.
> 
> I'm interested in getting something like f-secure or another
> commercial scanner working in conjunction with sophos and clamav.
> I've
> tried f-secure, and I can't get it configured properly.

I've been using F-Secure for a number of years with amavisd-new, but on
 Ubuntu.

What specific problem are you having getting it configured?


Andy




> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amavis-users [mailto:amavis-users-bounces+dino.edwards=mydire
> > ctmail.net at amavis.org] On Behalf Of Alex
> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 8:32 PM
> > To: amavis-users at amavis.org
> > Subject: Virus scanners with amavis and fedora
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone have a current list of virus scanners that work with
> > the current version of amavis and fedora25? Of course clamav works,
> > but are there others? Commercial?
> > 
> > We've had some success with Sophos, but clamav+sane+malware is far
> > better. I think we need a third to help with the Word macro viruses
> > and PDF spam.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Alex


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