RE: [Exim] Trend Micro's virus scanner

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Author: Jean-Robert WIAME
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To: 'Patrick von der Hagen', 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Trend Micro's virus scanner
Hi,
I have implemented it on a Debian with exim 3.12.
It's was a little hard but now it work well.
The solution implemented was a complete separation between Trend VirusWall
and Exim. There is two MTA on the servers
inbound mail --->[ Trend's VirusWall --> Exim ]---> outbound mail

If you want some help, ask, I'll try to remind what I have done :-)

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Jean-Robert WIAME            email: jrw@???
BELGIUM
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick von der Hagen [mailto:patrick@vonderhagen.de]
Sent: mardi 5 février 2002 22:15
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Trend Micro's virus scanner


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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:17:27PM -0800, David Chait wrote:
> Has anyone here actually implimented Exim to work with Trend Micro's linux
> based virus scanner, and if so, how?

Hmmmm, the german magazine "iX" published an article about virus-scanning on
Mail-Systems and compared 13 solutions, 12 of them based on W2k, either
standalone or requiring Exchange. The only non-W2k solution was Debian
Linux, running exim and Amavis.

Focus of the test was wheter all attachements were detected and decoded
correctly and exim/Amavis was the only solution to decode all test-mails
correctly. iX mentions to have used several virus-scanning-programms, one of
them Trend Micro FileScanner. However, they give no details about how to do
it.

The disadvantege of exim/Amavis: a very high system-load (reaching 96 in a
stress-test), which is reached when there are lots of mails in the queue,
being scanned in parallel.
"Of all tested MTAs, exim is the best working, but most complex one."
"...however, exim has no graphical user-interface".
"The best protection still is know-how in your own company and capabel
administrators."


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CU,
Patrick.
"Never run on auto-pilot" - The Pragmatic Programmer
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