fchan wrote: > Well, it appears that your lucky that you haven't been "discovered" > by spammers and botnets so they don't spam you with viruses and spam. > How about how many plain spam messages you get? The more "popular" > you are the more spam and viruses you will get. > I get an average of 150 messages with an viruses a day on my mail > server. The most I got was 432 viruses just few days ago but once in > a while I get none per day and I do wonder if clamav works at all. > Just sit tight and you may become popular and the viruses will come.
Sometimes it just means the first line of defense is working. Most of the mail I get is blocked by anti-spam tools that are far less costly to run than anti-virus. I've no doubt many of those messages have a virus payload in them, but they're rejected before the scan stage. I don't accept *.doc, *.exe, etc files as attachments so they're never scanned. However - the systems I run ClamAV on are primarily logging viruses found with Steve Basford's database files. Yesterday there were 225 found "viruses" of which only four were matches with patterns provided by ClamAV. All were phishing or html. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
