[bf1942] OT Protection

Fat Bastard bf1942 at fluchel.com
Wed Feb 4 15:53:27 EST 2004


Thanks for your responses everyone, you guys are always a lot of help!  I
have to get tweakin'.

Regards,

Fat Bastard


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew A. Chen [mailto:achen-bf1942 at divo.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:09 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [bf1942] OT Protection


If you're looking to jump ship from sendmail, I've succesfully setup qmail
running SpamAssassin with qmail-scanner running Sophos for Antivirus.
It's very effective.

---
Andrew A. Chen
Divo Networks

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 g8 at the.whole.net wrote:

> Mailscanner is good, as is MIMEDefang (my friend at sendmail recommends
> mdf for most situations).  Of course I recommend looking at more secure,
> alternate MTAs such as Postfix, qmail, or exim.  I personally use Postfix
> (aka IBM Secure Mailer) and a one line regex blocked the virii before
> they even got to the DATA stage (thus saving bandwidth at the server).
> If you want quarantine and such there are great packages like amavis-new
> filtering via clamav (and spamassassin) which integrate very well.  Some
> links for the interested:
>
> http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/mimedefang/  (assuming you want to
> stay with sendmail)
> http://www.postfix.org/  (a choice MTA upgrade path from sendmail)
> http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/  (check the how-to section, some great
> tutorials on easily setting up everything)
>
> -g8
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Steve Getman wrote:
>
> > Not sure that will help.  By the time Mailscanner gets to it it's
already
> > used bandwidth to get to your server.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Getman
> > steve at lightcubed.com
> >
> >
> > <quote who="Mario Massa">
> > > yeah its called MailScanner google it and you find there website
> > >
> > >> Hey everyone,
> > >>
> > >> I am sorry to bother you all but this is a bit off topic but probably
> > >> still
> > >> has some relevance to some others.
> > >>
> > >> I know I shouldn't do this, but I run my bf server on the same server
as
> > >> my
> > >> mail server, however I am having a helluva time with the MyDoom worm
> > >> hogging
> > >> a lot of the bandwidth and creating some ugly lag (2500 infected
mails a
> > >> day).  Does anyone know of a good free MIME stripper or anti-virus
> > >> protection for sendmail that will reduce the problems?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for any help,
> > >>
> > >> Fat Bastard
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Weaklinks Networks
> > > http://shells.weaklinks.net
> > >
> >
> >
>




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