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Date: 2004-05-15T01:25:30
Editor: JustinMason <jm@jmason.org>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: FilteringViruses
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FilteringViruses

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= Does SpamAssassin filter email-borne viruses as well as spam? =

-No. ? WHY? SpamAssassin is focussed on identifying spam, and not viruses. The mechanism of scanning for viruses is different, and software tailored for virus scanning is much much better at this task. It is possible that in future versions that SA will include hooks to call out to external virus scanners, but SA itself is unlikely to attempt such functionality itself. You may be interested in [http://www.clamav.net/ ClamAV], a GPL virus scanner.
+No. SpamAssassin is focussed on identifying spam, and not viruses. The mechanism of scanning for viruses is different, and software tailored for virus scanning is much much better at this task. It is possible that in future versions that SA will include hooks to call out to external virus scanners, but SA itself is unlikely to attempt such functionality itself. You may be interested in [http://www.clamav.net/ ClamAV], a GPL virus scanner.

An easy way to use the ClamAV daemon with [http://www.procmail.org/ procmail] is to add this to your procmailrc file:
{{{

Date: 2004-05-27T14:40:07
Editor: 81.168.79.193 <>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: FilteringViruses
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FilteringViruses

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| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-status: No"
}}}

-This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to anything message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable Scan``Mail, Scan``Archive and Stream``Save``To``Disk in clamav.conf
+This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to any message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable Scan``Mail, Scan``Archive and Stream``Save``To``Disk in clamav.conf

Date: 2004-05-27T14:42:51
Editor: JustinMason <jm@jmason.org>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: FilteringViruses
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FilteringViruses

tweaking formatting

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:0fw
* VIRUS ?? ^.*: \/.* FOUND
-| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-status: Yes, $MATCH"
+| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-Status: Yes, $MATCH"

:0Efw
-| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-status: No"
+| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-Status: No"
}}}

-This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to any message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable Scan``Mail, Scan``Archive and Stream``Save``To``Disk in clamav.conf
+This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to any message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable {{{Scan``Mail}}}, {{{Scan``Archive}}} and {{{Stream``Save``To``Disk}}} in clamav.conf

Date: 2004-05-27T14:43:03
Editor: JustinMason <jm@jmason.org>
Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
Page: FilteringViruses
URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FilteringViruses

no comment

Change Log:

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@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
| formail -b -f -t -I "X-Clamav-Status: No"
}}}

-This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to any message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable {{{Scan``Mail}}}, {{{Scan``Archive}}} and {{{Stream``Save``To``Disk}}} in clamav.conf
+This will add "X-Clamav-status: yes" to any message that's found to have a virus. Since "clamdscan" uses the daemon, you'll need to enable {{{ScanMail}}}, {{{ScanArchive}}} and {{{StreamSaveToDisk}}} in clamav.conf