Re: [Exim] Recommendations for virus scanning/content filter…

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Author: scott
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To: Kevin P. Fleming
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Recommendations for virus scanning/content filtering?

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

>OK, after a SirCam infection at the office yesterday, the boss has decided
>it's time to get virus filtering installed on our Exim mail server (good
>idea, I've been asking to do it for months now).
>
>It looks (to me at least) like Amavis-perl is the most complete virus
>scanning tool for Exim at this point. Anyone have any other suggestions I
>should look at first? What virus scanner do you guys recommend? I've seen
>Sophos, Trend and McAfee for Linux, but have no idea how they compare.
>
>Also, I'd like to filter out _all_ executable content, and not by filtering
>on file extension (as the public "system filter" does). Has anyone seen a
>program that will actually inspect the contents of the file and report back
>whether it appears to contain _any_ Windows-executable content (i.e.
>Portable Executable format, .COM format, batch files, VBScript, ECMAScript,
>etc.)?
>


I saw this from a google search:
http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/

exiscan appears to supports several popular antivirus scanning engines.

- Scott