ClamAV Feedback was (RE: Sendmail Milter Question)

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Rick Stevens wrote:

> Yang Xiao wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is anyone using ClamAV in a production environment? How does it stack
>> up against the commecial Anti-Virus programs such as symantec etc... I
>> want to setup and spam filter with vuirus scan on FC2, but have some
>> reservations on using a free software antivirus product because I have
>> no idea whether their virus defnitions are good and up to date.
>> Many Thanks,
>
> For spam, take a look at Bogofilter.  I've found that things such as
> spam-asassin don't scale well when you have traffic levels like we do
> (perl-based code just isn't fast enough in our experience).

 Fronting Spamassassin with MailScanner works extremely well. I'm no 
perl fan
for large packages, but mailscanner is really well designed. It is quite 
fast (maybe
still not enough for you load,,,) and alleviates the load on SA a lot.
Using RBLs like Spamhaus is a must too.

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