One week of running Clam Anti-Virus and amavisd-new has resulted the following viruses quarantined: Virus Quantity Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 85 Worm.SomeFool.P 62 Yaha.P 6 Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 1 Total: 154 Interesting to note that, out of all the emails that have been quarantined, 119 (or 77.3%) of them are addressing one of the FOCUS mailing lists, with potential to [...]
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Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Mar 24 2004
Mar 18 2004
Running Postfix + AMaViS + Clam AntiVirus
I have just got Postfix on my Mandrake Linux box to talk to Clam AntiVirus via amavisd-new, which also does spam filtering as well. It uses Postfix’s content filtering interface to pipe the incoming emails through another SMTP server to quarantine potential viruses. Because AMaViS also integrates with Spam Assassin, I have thus dropped my [...]
Jan 21 2004
Virus Attack!
W32/Beagle.A, an email virus, has been hitting our email server recenly, from the amount of emails titled “Hi” coming into Postfix. We have emails from a friend in Singapore, but originated from the BigPond network. Emails from Korea and Hong Kong, etc – suddenly all our friends decided to come in and say “Hi” with [...]