Re: Sendmail virus scanner

["Kan Tat Wee" <kan () hardware-one com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <felix () eurasia qodiga com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:03 AM
Subject: Sendmail virus scanner


Hi,

>   I'm looking for a virus scanner to use under sendmail. Do you know if
>   there are any script or daemon to do that?.
>
>   I want to parse all mails looking for .exe, .vbs or some others file
>   attachments to block it (not to block emails, just block the
>   attachment).

We use MailScanner (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/) along with
Sophos Anti-Virus under Linux. In order to reduce the amount of possible
spam, we also use SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.taint.org/) along with
some simple procmail rulesets.