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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