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Scanning for Windows Viruses in Linuxland?
rmmeyer asks: "I'm in the process of building an e-mail server for my company with
a new twist. Since most of the clients are going to be Windows based (don't go there, I can't change 'em) and running Outlook (I know, I know...) I need to be able to scan the incoming and outgoing Emails for viruses. A quick check on Freshmeat shows fourty-nine projects related to email viruses. I intend to use Sendmail for the MTA with the milter API for scanning. There appear to be several commercial anti-virus scanners for Linux and at least one Open Source scanner. What are the community's experiences doing this? We expect to have 150 clients and potentially several thousand incoming Emails per day. Points are added for solutions that also include the capability of scanning Samba shares! =)" Ask Slashdot last touched on this issue in this article, from early March of last year, and before that in another article from October of 2000. I'm sure things have changed greatly since then.
Vexira MailArmor for Linux (SendMail, Sendmail+Milter, Qmail, Postfix, Exim, SuSE) message servers is a high speed e-mail virus protection application that actively defends e-mail boxes from receiving virus infected files and user's from sending virus infected files through the messaging server. Vexira MailArmor is licensed PER DOMAIN and offers significant savings over per mail box licensing.
Vexira MailArmor It spools all inbound and outbound e-mail messages and virus scans them using the Vexira Antivirus virus scanner. Messages that are found to be virus free are immediately forwarded to the recipients and infected messages are quarantined and the sender, recipient, and mail administrator are notified. - Virus detection, quarantine, removal - Virus scans all in-bound and out-bound email - Real-Time virus interception - Can process high volumes of email - Scalable to the maximum capacity of the server's processing ability - Configurable warning notifications to sender, recipient or postmaster - Heuristic virus detection - Full automatic update of scan engine and virus definition file - Support virus scanning within archives (ZIP, RAR, LHA, ARJ etc...) - Detection of malformed messages - Can be used with other E-Mail messaging servers easily
How can protect your Samba shares?
Vexira Antivirus for Linux Servers is a complete virus defense system designed for easy and dependable virus prevention on Linux based servers. Vexira Antivius uses an advanced multi-platform virus inspection technology. Often Linux servers will store executable programs for networked client systems of a different architecture. Configurable to protect the open file shares and prevent client workstations from saving, reading, writing and executing virus infected files.
Vexira is stopping every virus that has tried to get in here about our customers have told us that they have not had a single virus delivered to their mail box since we installed the vexira virus scanner! I cannot praise vexira enough. Technical support has been very good and prompt and the pricing is GREAT!
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What do I like best about Vexira?
Unpacks and extracts all MIME encoded messages without needing any other helper apps
Automatic updating
Very fast virus scanning
Reasonable price
We tested and evaluated vexira for about a month and it was clear that this app is a awesome antivirus.