Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Antivirus for (mailservers on) FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306121254550.4676-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <20030612193524.GA31199@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, David Kelly wrote: > How does "antivirus mail filtering" differ significantly from spam > filtering? Seems to me these two should be one and the same as "spam" > is a form of malicious code. > > Teach a spam filter what the virus looks like and kill two birds with > the same stone. A spam filter can help. But a virus may be embedded in compressed files. A good anti-virus solution knows how to look at zip files, et cetera. I have a list of Email Virus Scanners and/or Spam Filters to run on the Mail Server at http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/filters.html Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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