--On Friday, September 12, 2003 10:04:26 +0100 Nigel Metheringham
<Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
> Two reasons:-
> 1. I don't run virus checking on any of my boxes, because all the
> end users are configured in a virus avoiding fashion. However I
> do kill messages with executable extentions. [The EICAR problem
> is that it doesn't need to be in an attachment for most virus
> scanners to pick it up.] I'm not keen on running finickity
> software that I don't have experience with on a box providing
> real service. Previous reasons for not doing so were that there
> was no free AV software and no budget.
>
> 2. exim.org is seriously overloaded. Until it gets new hardware I
> am not putting additional services on to it. Thats why
> SpamAssassin isn't in the mailing list chain either.
Fair enough. Sounds a lot like the reasons I had for not using AV or
spam filtering on my old server. (Just replaced with major upgrades
last tuesday.) And let me say how happy I was to find a free and
apparently quite competent AV package in clamav.
> Having said that I added a regexp rule to the exiscan acls to kill EICAR
> stuff.
Sounds like a good cheap fix. Between that and the executable file
blocking you've probably got the vast majority of viri stopped.
-Pat
