Re: Antivirus Programs for Openbsd

[Per-Olov Sjöholm <pos@incedo.org>]

On Monday 01 November 2004 21.28, Adam wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:03:31PM +0100, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
> > Check www.centralcommand.com (the vexira antivirus)
> >
> > I use their product for a couple Milter and Sendmail setups. I know they
> > have filescanning for OpenBSD as well. The www.antivir.de have products
> > as well (same as centralcommand as Centralcommand obviously own them).
>
> I would recommend you stay away from this junk.  Both their milter and
> the actual scanning daemon will crash or just plain stop functioning
> while still running under a bit of load.  And their scanning daemon is
> so poorly documented I couldn't even write my own milter for it.  Their
> support wouldn't even attempt to do anything, despite OpenBSD being a
> supported platform.  ClamAV, which is free and open source proved to be
> far more reliable.
>
> Adam

????

Do not use products from antivir.de. Use the same product from centralcommand. 
The stable products are moved over to central command. There are a reason why 
for example  the Solaris product is not sold at the centralcommand site... 
it's not stable. But the Vexira for OpenBSD is rock solid....

B t w, isn't the Milter included directly in the daemon just as the Trend 
Micro Milter product? It is.... So I do not understand how you would  write 
your own milter for it? It's not like clamd where you have to use a 
standalone milter connector.... Have you really tested the milter product for 
OpenBSD? 

What we have used at many sites with great success is Sendmail with the Vexira 
Milter product. This together with smtp-vilter and spamassassin. All running 
perfect on OpenBSD and never ever any stops.. We have used it on VERY high 
mail volumes.
 
ClamAV on the other hand have now also been a very reliable product. We use 
that one as well with very good results.

/Per-Olov