Re: antivirus recomendation?

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 11/21/03

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    On (20/11/03 23:39), Stephen wrote:
    > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500 or thereabouts, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
    > >
    > > You can look into clamAV.
    > > But if SpamAssassin is too resource intensive I think you will find
    > > antivirus scanners to be even more so.
    > >
    > > clamav+spamassassin scanning in daemon mode takes 10-20 seconds per message.
    > > spamassassin scanning in daemon mode takes 2-3 seconds per message.
    > > This is based on a Pentiume-II 400MHz 512MB RAM.
    > >
    > >
    > > A very solid set-up that I have is to use postfix + amavisd-new + clamav +
    > > spamassassin. It is a little intense in that it will readily suck up the
    > > better part of my 512MB of RAM. But it does it all.
    > >
    > > However, I have to limit the processes to ~10. Still tweaking the values.
    > >
    > > I'm not sure what resources you are worried about, but I've given you some
    > > stats to help you decide. AntiVirus scanning is pretty intense work.
    >
    > I know, which is why I didn't want to add to it with SA. I've ran SA b4
    > on a busy gateway, it's atrocious. Spamprobe, with it's Bayesian
    > filtering is much, much faster (written in C++).
    >
    > Have you any experience at all with any of the following:
    > sanitizer, xbill, and amavis-ng?
    >
    > Thanks for your suggestion. I'm attempting to get some qualitative
    > feedback on the various binaries available to me. I've added a backports
    > source to my aptitude list, so I'm ready to get cracking.
    To deal with Swen - quite a few people on the list use mailfilter with
    fetchmail to remove the stuff before download. If you check the archives, therehas been quite a lot of posts on this.

    Regards

    Clive 

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