From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 13:10:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from surreal.nl (surreal.nl [212.204.236.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A4437B40B for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by surreal.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B262B7FE05; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B082387ACD; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:11:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Walter Hop To: Walter Betancourt Cc: Subject: Re: anti-virus In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010930122048.00b5e4a0@popd.betan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to Walter Betancourt , 30/09/01] > anyone have info on an anti-virus program for freebsd, ? > > should it be used ? You don't have to worry too much about infecting your FreeBSD machine with viruses. If you provide mail service to Windows users on the other hand, a virus scanner is an essential tool. I use the amavis-perl package (http://www.amavis.org/ and available in ports) to handle the scanning of incoming mail. Amavis "relays" the incoming mail to a virus scanner before the delivery; it can also notify the sender and the recipient. I have tried the following virus scanners: - AVP (http://www.avp.ru/) - McAfee Virusscan (http://www.nai.com/) They both work flawlessly, I have yet to receive a virus. McAfee provides a 30-day trial version, so you can use that to experiment with the setup. If you just want a virusscanner for home use, a problem may be that both companies only provide large scale FreeBSD versions: AVP only sells the "server version" and McAfee Netherlands only wanted to ship 5+ licenses. In such a situation, you can always use the Linux workstation version of either app and run it on FreeBSD using Linux emulation. I run the AVP home version with Linux and I have no problems (except that it takes a little longer to load than the FreeBSD version; probably because it needs to load certain Linux libraries) Good luck, walter -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | PGP key ID: 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message