 | | | Anitvirus for mail Servers (my rant) | Anitvirus for mail Servers (my rant) 2002-05-16 - By Jason
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By now it should be readily apparent to just about everyone that e-mail
needs to be scanned for virii/worms before being delivered to the recipient
because of the foolish bugs in several of the more common e-mail clients
used by the population of todays planet earth, not to mention the fact that
those yet to have been taken by Darwin are still clicking on stuff that has
all the signs of being a virus.
So why aren 't todays actively developed mta 's and virus programs making it
easier to "snap together. " I should be able to install McAfee, AVP, Sophos,
F-Secure, Symantec, or any of the other 200 virusscan programs I 've never
heard of before. I should then be able to the waltz over to the config file
for sendmail, postfix, qmail, exchange, or any of 200 other mta 's I 've never
heard of before and be able to do something like:
av_program= "mcafee "
av_program_location= "/opt/mcafee/uvscan "
virus_found_on_return_code= "13 "
scan_incoming_mail= "yes "
scan_outgoing_mail= "yes "
scan_relayed_mail= "yes "
quarantine_infected_mail= "yes "
quarantine_location= "/var/vscan/infected "
Am I making to much out of this? I 'm looking at these programs and my head
is pounding just reading everything I have to do to be reasonably reassured
that I 'm not going to become infected with something, not to mention the
fact that this one works with these two email programs, this one with
another, and that one over there with these three. I think that the third
party program method used now is quite messy, unfortunately I don 't see a
way around it unless the developers of the mta 's and vscan 's do something
about it...
Jason
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