From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 13:02:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85EF37B404 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D9E43F93 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19QYCU-00021o-00; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:57:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: David Kelly In-Reply-To: <20030612193524.GA31199@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:02:25 -0000 On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, David Kelly wrote: > How does "antivirus mail filtering" differ significantly from spam > filtering? Seems to me these two should be one and the same as "spam" > is a form of malicious code. > > Teach a spam filter what the virus looks like and kill two birds with > the same stone. A spam filter can help. But a virus may be embedded in compressed files. A good anti-virus solution knows how to look at zip files, et cetera. I have a list of Email Virus Scanners and/or Spam Filters to run on the Mail Server at http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/filters.html Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/