Best Antivirus Options for a Mailserver?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 3, 2004 @09:55AM from the remember-when-email-viruses-were-a-myth dept.

CSIP asks: "I am setting up a small mailserver, with ~500 users, across 80 domains. I'm planning to use qmail-scanner and an antivirus scanner to block incoming viruses. I would prefer to use ClamAV, however I've read conflicting reports on its effectiveness. The commercial scanners appear to detect 99.X% however they are licensed per-user, which at 500+ users becomes quite the annual bill. What is everyone's experience with ClamAV? Are their other commercial scanners that allow you to license on a per-server basis?" The best indicator of quality for a virus scanner is the information in its virus database. How do ClamAV's virus definitions compare to commercial scanners, like McAfee's?

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ClamAV vs. Commercial by OneFix+at+Work · 2004-03-03 10:17 · Score: 4, Informative

There's a good post detailing the ClamAV vs. Commercial question...

To paraphrase, ClamAV's database is generally at least a few days ahead of sophos and sometimes weeks...

ClamAV was written from the ground-up to do mail scanning, so it should be better than commercial scanners that try to be everything to everyone...