Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:23:48 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell. Message-ID: <200701271223.l0RCNm7L000743@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Paul Schmehl writes: > Uvscan is McAfee's antivirus product. Did you install it? There's a conf > file in the files directory of that port. It defines AVSCANNER as "/usr/ > local/bin/uvscan". That would require that you have McAfee Antivirus for > FreeBSD installed. If this machine handles lots of mail, I wouldn't > suggest > you use that. Uvscan launches a shell for each time it's called, and it > will suck a lot of cpu and memory (based on our extensive comparison > testing.) Thank you very much. I was a little fuzzy about how the mcAfee product with its data base got there or what it looked like, etc. It is probably not worth the extra load to have antivirus-milter on there although I see now that had mcAfee been there, it would have probably done its job. I am the only major inbound Email account on that system, but it is a rather busy workhorse for our group and is already busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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