Ted Leung on the air : ClamAV

Last week, a few of us from OSAF had a meeting with Greg Stein to talk about protocols that we might use for our item sharing feature. In addition to a very interesting discussion, I learned about ClamAV, a GPL'ed virus scanner that runs on Linux. I was already running spamassassin on our mail box but I didn't know there was a good virus scanner for Linux. So I spent this morning installing the Debian ClamAV packages, as well as amavisd-new, which I used to hook both spamassassin (I had been using per-user procmail files) and ClamAV up to postfix.

Postfix + Amavis + ClamAV + SpamAssassin. Use it, love it, can't say enough good things about it.
Posted by Mark at Sun Apr 11 06:54:32 2004

I just fairly recently setup ClamAV as well. It works very well. I used to have procmail filters setup to block executables but found it was hard to keep up to date. Now with ClamAV I just run freshclam every hour on a cron job and the virus definition files are constantly up to date.

I'm with Mark. Postfix + Amavis + ClamAV + SpamAssassin = Good.
Posted by Darryl at Mon Apr 12 09:39:13 2004

Yep, ClamAV seems to do the job like many other commercial alternative, and thankfully, debian unstable help me settle all the dependencies I need for such a setup, my setup consists of:

Postfix + Amavis + ClamAV + SpamAssassin + Cyrus IMAPD
Posted by wari at Mon Apr 12 20:00:06 2004

It's nice to see others who appreciate ClamAv. It solved Mytob faster than nearly all the major antivirus vendors.

Email Battles wanted to know what keeps the ClamAV project from selling out or flying apart. Our interview with ClamAV project founder Tomasz Kojm covers what it takes to create, manage and maintain this very successful open source project. Hope you find it worth the read.
Posted by BJ at Sat Aug 27 22:20:45 2005