AMaViS – high-performance interface

AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) scans e-mail attachments for viruses using third-party virus scanners available for UNIX environments.

In other words, AMaViS is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with one or more virus scanners.

It resides on a Linux machine and looks through the attached files arriving via e-mail, generates reports when a virus is found and sets the delivery on hold.

The currently supported MTAs are courier, exim, qmail, postfix, and sendmail.

Features include:

• Built-in defences against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
• Works with a number of virus scanners.
  • CyberSoft VFind.
  • F-Secure Inc. (former DataFellows) F-Secure AV.
  • H+BEDV AntiVir/X.
  • Kaspersky Anti-Virus (kavscanner and kavdaemon).
  • Network Associates Virus Scan for Linux.
  • Sophos Sweep.
  • Trend Micro FileScanner.
  • CAI InoculateIT.
  • GeCAD RAV AntiVirus 8.
  • ESET Software NOD32 (command line scanner and daemon/client).
  • Command AntiVirus for Linux.
  • VirusBuster Sophie, using Sophos AntiVirus Interface.
  • Trophie, using Trend Micro AP.
  • FRISK F-Prot / F-Prot Daemon.
  • OpenAntiVirus ScannerDaemon.
  • DrWeb Antivirus.
  • MkS_Vir/MkS_Vir Daemon.
  • CentralCommand Vexira.
  • Norman Virus Control for Linux.
  • ClamAV.
  • AVG7 Anti-Virus.

Website: amavis.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Christian Bricart, Chris L. Mason, Lars Hecking, Rainer Link, Geoff Winkless and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

AMaViS is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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