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What do you think about Jon's experiences with open source antivirus solutions? Has your company used open source virus scanning? Tell us about your experiences, or let us know why you wouldn't consider an open source solution, as featured in this week's Internet Security Focus e-newsletter. Then, tell us how helpful this column was to you by rating it from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest.

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by brianr

I am installing Clamav and Amavis under the Mitel SME Server distro on all the servers I ship to my customers. I find that the Clamav db is updated regularily and catches most problems.

It does a regular scan of the shared areas every night, and scans email as it comers in as well.

However you should not do without anti-virus on the workstations, as there are other routes into the PC than email which must be covered. I still recommend a commercial Av for these, as when a new virus comes out, there may be a few days lapse between the Clam update and the (paid for) Av update.

Cheers

Brian
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by catchveera

Is there any sources available to get virus signatures free/commercially ?

Thanks,
Veera.

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