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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:16:26 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD
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I terms of mail you are not limited to unix bases solutions. Exim for
example as the ability to pass the mail to a host:port for scanning. That
means you are not limited via os and therefore av vendor.

On 23 March 2016 at 06:01, Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 09:07 +0000, krad wrote:
>
> > Other than that clamav
> > is good enough.
>
> I'm curious as to whether that's an objective or subjective view?
>
> I've got clam-av set up on a couple of mail boxes scanning incoming
> messages and find a worrying amount of viral content still gets
> through. Even after submitting false-negative reports, manual tests
> conducted (days!) later have failed to detect them.
>
> To be fair, some of that also fails to be detected initially by
> commercial AV scanners on MS Windows. However in one instance, for
> example, one AV provider had an update deployed and distributed less
> than two hours after they were notified.
>
> I've submitted suspect attachments to the Virus-Total web site to find
> that it was already submitted previously, sometimes long ago, and clam-
> av is listed with a negative detection result.
>
>



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