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Old 06-16-2005, 03:00 PM   #6
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Default Clam AV experience

Hello I'm using clamav in our vds and dedicated machines with IspServer. It's a very good system (we can stop every day between 30.000 - 50.000 infected emails).

The only problem that we have with Clam AV is cpu and memory consumes. Some months ago Clam AV use clamd, clamav-milter and fresclam processes, and very frequently some of them crash because system did bad update or haven't enought resources.

But recently, we are using dedicated machines and we have configured only main clamav system (in root system) and then use only a milter process in all vds. This configuration reduce consumes and we have less problems. We have adjust some values in clam configuration, for example, now system only scans emails with little attachments, and now system consume less resources.

Sometimes, we have some problem in vds and Clam stops, but email system continue running (we receive infected emails). Will be good if we can active/desactive clamav system from ispmanager (and test if it's running). Monitoring system must test that clamav-milter process is running (like with apache, mysql, smtp, processes) and restart it if is down.

Spamassassin + ClamAV are very good protection. Now we are using clamav + external spamcop filter. We don't receive any infected email, but we receive a lot of spam in some accounts.

We think that antivirus and antispam services are essential for control panel. Last changes in stmp and qpopper are goods, but everybody needs protections.


Jordi Flores
Dimensis Global Communications
www.dimensis.com
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