Secure, efficient and simple virus protection at the incoming mail server.
SoftlabsAV (Softlabs AntiVirus) is a generic anti-virus filter for incoming mail servers on Unix. It is driven by the widely used
procmail Mail Delivery Agent (MDA).
In addition, it plugs to the ClamAV anti-virus scanner (clamscan) and scans for viruses,
PUAs, phishings and possible phishings.
SoftlabsAV has been designed with security, efficiency and simplicity in mind.
It is fast, tiny and easy to install. And, it is free and open source software.
A set of procmail recipes isolates mails with an attached potential virus
into a quarantine directory. Directly infectious attachments as well as
packed viruses (UU encoded or inside a Zip or Rar archive, including
encrypted ones) will all be detected. Both "Base64" and "Quoted-Printable"
Transfer-Encodings are supported. Encoded file names are also supported.
Suspicious attachments will be classified and extracted into directories
representing its virus type. Finally, ClamAV will scan the attachment to
prove if it is in fact a virus. In addition, potential malicious mails that
do not necessarily have an attachment (such as HTML mails) will also be scanned
(as raw mbox file). Per default, ClamAV will scan each entire mail as mbox
file if it could not identify a virus within an attachment or if no potential
malicious content has been unveiled.
The results are maintained within a handy
viruses log file.
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