Dear all,

My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus package for such email server, many thanks.

Regards,
Simon

In comp.os.linux.networking Simon lee <simonlee@yahoo.com>:
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> Dear all,

> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail.
> Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free
> antivirus package for such email server, many thanks.

- RH 8 is EOL for some time, get something recent.
- Get rid of your MUA, M$-Outcrap is target number one for lots
of rat-/malware.
- Check out Clamav for antivirus.
- Check out Mailscanner to "marry" clamav with sendmail

Good luck

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Hallo, Simon,

Du (simonlee) meintest am 06.11.06:

> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
> package for such email server, many thanks.

Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
works fine.

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

In comp.mail.sendmail Helmut Hullen <HHullen_BS@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo, Simon,
>
> Du (simonlee) meintest am 06.11.06:
>
>> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
>> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
>> package for such email server, many thanks.
>
> Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
> works fine.
>

Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner. You should install them both, work like
charm. And even further: SpamAssassin integrates as well.

Regards,

Peter

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Hallo, Peter,

Du (nobody) meintest am 06.11.06:

>>> My redhat 8.0 has installed sendmail and squirrel webmail. Owing
>>> serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
>>> package for such email server, many thanks.
>>
>> Try "mimedefang" - it's more simple to install than clamav, and it
>> works fine.
>>

> Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.

Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
testing).

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

In comp.mail.sendmail Helmut Hullen <HHullen_BS@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo, Peter,
>
> Du (nobody) meintest am 06.11.06:
>
>> Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>
> Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
> testing).
>

It rejected it because you probable sent an .com file through it.

Kind regards,

Peter

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Peter Boosten wrote:

>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>>
>>Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
>>testing).
>>
>
>
> It rejected it because you probable sent an .com file through it.

If it not only rejects but also detects the eicar virus, like
Helmut says, there be a virus scanner running. But that is _not_
MimeDefang. MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.

But MimeDefang is capable to use a whole range of virus
scanners if they are installed.

Some of the compile-time configuration options of MimeDefang are:

--disable-anti-virus Do not look for anti-virus scanners
--disable-antivir Do not include support for H+BEDV antivir
--disable-vexira Do not include support for Central Command
Vexira
--disable-uvscan Do not include support for NAI uvscan
--disable-bdc Do not include support for Bitdefender bdc
--disable-sweep Do not include support for Sophos sweep
--disable-trend Do not include support for Trend
Filescanner/Interscan
--disable-AvpLinux Do not include support for AVP AvpLinux
--disable-kavscanner Do not include support for Kaspersky
kavscanner
--disable-aveclient Do not include support for AVP5 aveclient
--disable-clamav Do not include support for clamav
--disable-fsav Do not include support for F-Secure Anti-Virus
--disable-csav Do not include support for Command Software
CSAV
--disable-fprot Do not include support for F-prot Anti-Virus
--disable-sophie Do not include support for Sophie
--disable-nvcc Do not include support for Nvcc
--disable-clamd Do not include support for clamd
--disable-trophie Do not include support for Trophie

If one or more of the above virus scanners are installed and you
didn't disable those scanners in the MimeDefang configuration
then they will be used by MimeDefang. But MimeDefang cannot scan
for virusses without of external scanners.

Regards,

Kees.

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In comp.mail.sendmail Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> wrote:
> Peter Boosten wrote:
>
>>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>
> MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.
>

That's what I wrote ;-)

Peter


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Peter Boosten wrote:
> In comp.mail.sendmail Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> wrote:
>
>>Peter Boosten wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>>
>> MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.
>>
>
>
> That's what I wrote ;-)

Yes, and I confirmed that.
I posted my reaction because you wrote: "It rejected it
because you probable sent an .com file through it."

I think it is quite likely that Helmut _has_ a virusscanner
running, and that it is started by MimeDefang. It
probably isn't just a rejection of all .com files.

But it is for sure _not_ MimeDefang doing the scan.

Regards,

Kees.

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Hallo, Kees,

Du (theuniss) meintest am 06.11.06:

> If it not only rejects but also detects the eicar virus, like
> Helmut says, there be a virus scanner running. But that is _not_
> MimeDefang. MimeDefang is not a virus scanner.

> But MimeDefang is capable to use a whole range of virus
> scanners if they are installed.

Ok - it's a small difference. But that's linux: one job, one tool.

(especially in this case: I can use more than one virus scanner
withinh mimedefang)

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

Hallo, Peter,

Du (nobody) meintest am 06.11.06:

>>> Mimedefang isn't a virus scanner.
>>
>> Isn't it? It detects and rejects the eicar virus (which I used for
>> testing).
>>

> It rejected it because you probable sent an .com file through it.

No - it detects and rejects "eicar.com" as a virus, it removes other
*.com files "as it constituted a security hazard".

If you mean "mimedefang has no own virus scanner" - ok: mimedefang
allows including many virus scanners.

It allows including clamav too.

Viele Grüße!
Helmut

In comp.mail.sendmail Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> wrote:
>
> Yes, and I confirmed that.
> I posted my reaction because you wrote: "It rejected it
> because you probable sent an .com file through it."
>
> I think it is quite likely that Helmut _has_ a virusscanner
> running, and that it is started by MimeDefang. It
> probably isn't just a rejection of all .com files.
>

Agreed. I just didn't want to go into a "you do - I don't" battle
(wellus-nietus in Dutch :-) ) with Helmut about him having a virus scanner
installed.

I noticed we both use the word 'probably', so we're guessing.
I hope Helmut is convinced it isn't his Mimedefang detecting viruses.

Kind regards

Peter

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On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:09:41 +0800, Simon lee wrote:

> Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
> package for such email server, many thanks.

Clamav is brilliant.

Dan

Dear all,

I want to install CLAMAV into redhat 8.0. But there are many dependancies
such as glib package needed to be installed before clamav can be done,
although the clamav in redhat 8.0 version is chosen, why? It also creates
many dependencies problems when installing glibc-2.3.2, why? Which version
of clamav can be installed to solve the above problems. Please advise,
thanks.

Regards,
Simon

"Dan N" <dan@localhost.localhost>
:pan.2006.11.07.02.05.42.680223@localhost.localhos t...
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:09:41 +0800, Simon lee wrote:
>
>> Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
>> package for such email server, many thanks.
>
> Clamav is brilliant.
>
> Dan

Simon lee wrote:

> I want to install CLAMAV into redhat 8.0.

Red Hat 8.0 is too old to be useful any more. Get a modern system
like Fedora Core 6, or Debian 3.1, or Ubuntu 6.10.

Regards,

David.

* Simon lee <simonlee@yahoo.com> wrote:
[..]
> I want to install CLAMAV into redhat 8.0. But there are many dependancies
> such as glib package needed to be installed before clamav can be done,
> although the clamav in redhat 8.0 version is chosen, why? It also creates
> many dependencies problems when installing glibc-2.3.2, why? Which version
> of clamav can be installed to solve the above problems. Please advise,
> thanks.

Please learn to handle basic system administration tasks before you
even think about running an MTA on the internet.

Your system is EOL'd, it doesn't appear like you have read any
documentation at all.

If you really need your own MTA, please hire someone who knows what
he's doing.

- Sebastian

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Simon lee wrote:
> I want to install CLAMAV into redhat 8.0. But there are many dependancies
> such as glib package needed to be installed before clamav can be done,
> although the clamav in redhat 8.0 version is chosen, why? It also creates
> many dependencies problems when installing glibc-2.3.2, why?

You can find clamav built for RH8 at:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/

He seems to be keeping up-to-date with new clamav on RH7 and RH9,
but not RH8, so you won't get the latest. If you're sticking with RH8,
you'd be best to learn how to build your own RPMs for RH8 from
the source tarbal and his .spec file (see rpmbuild).

Regards,
Steve

David F. Skoll wrote:

> Red Hat 8.0 is too old to be useful any more. Get a modern system
> like Fedora Core 6, or Debian 3.1, or Ubuntu 6.10.

Bullshit. I use rh 6.2 based linux, and all important software is latest
(selfmade rpm -s). And everything works great.

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Simon lee wrote:
>
>
> I want to install CLAMAV into redhat 8.0.

1) Build it from source.
2) Make your own rpm from source - so do I.
3) Get latest source rpm and rebuild it in your linux.

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Mart wrote:

> David F. Skoll wrote:

>> Red Hat 8.0 is too old to be useful any more. Get a modern system
>> like Fedora Core 6, or Debian 3.1, or Ubuntu 6.10.

> Bullshit. I use rh 6.2 based linux, and all important software is latest
> (selfmade rpm -s). And everything works great.

That's not really RH6.2 anymore, then. It's some kind of Frankenstein
hybrid.

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In comp.mail.sendmail Dan N <dan@localhost.localhost> wrote:

> > Owing serious virus in present email, please advise free antivirus
> > package for such email server, many thanks.

> Clamav is brilliant.

However it does not detect some viruses which are detected by
commercial software like DrWeb.

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