From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 12:23:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5AF16A400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1807F13C4AE for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l0RCNm7L000743 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:23:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200701271223.l0RCNm7L000743@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <741.1169900628.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:23:48 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Subject: Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:23:49 -0000 Paul Schmehl writes: > Uvscan is McAfee's antivirus product. Did you install it? There's a conf > file in the files directory of that port. It defines AVSCANNER as "/usr/ > local/bin/uvscan". That would require that you have McAfee Antivirus for > FreeBSD installed. If this machine handles lots of mail, I wouldn't > suggest > you use that. Uvscan launches a shell for each time it's called, and it > will suck a lot of cpu and memory (based on our extensive comparison > testing.) Thank you very much. I was a little fuzzy about how the mcAfee product with its data base got there or what it looked like, etc. It is probably not worth the extra load to have antivirus-milter on there although I see now that had mcAfee been there, it would have probably done its job. I am the only major inbound Email account on that system, but it is a rather busy workhorse for our group and is already busy enough that one notices slowdowns at times and, when we check, it is all legitimate. In this business, paranoia is a virtue. Again, thanks for your help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group