Hi,
Does anyone amavis or another antivirus program on their fileserver? Any recommendations?
Gerald
Hi,
Does anyone amavis or another antivirus program on their fileserver? Any recommendations?
Gerald
Hey,
For clarification: amavis itself is not an anti-virus program. It is a program that sits between your mail server and one or more anti-virus scanners. amavis’ job is to receive a mail from the mail server, hand it over to one or more anti-virus programs, collect their results and act on those results by dropping the mail or handing it back to the mail server for final delivery.
So if you’re looking for an anti-virus solution for file servers, don’t look into amavis. Wrong tool for the job.
In the past we’ve had customers use F-secure, ESET and Kaspersky on file servers. On Linux there are generally three different approaches:
smb.conf
option vfs objects
). This is a pretty stable API (unlike the kernel’s internal interfaces). Several A/V solutions provide modules for Samba, and we’ve definitely had customers use this kind of setup with great success on Univention, too. The drawback is that only file accesses that happen via SMB/CIFS are scanned. In most setups this isn’t a big deal as most clients are Windows or macOS machines, and both types use SMB/CIFS for file access. And pure Linux applications are not usually targeted by malware or viruses. Therefore we often combine this method with method 1 (regular full filesystem scans).I cannot say anything about the product quality of the three vendors listed above, though. Refer to the usual comparisons available all over the internet.
Kind regards
mosu