{"id":542,"date":"2004-04-04T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"creating_a_viru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/04\/creating_a_viru\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a virus free zone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently implemented a server side anti-virus solution using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clamav.net\/\">ClamAV<\/a>.  This is a freeware utility, mostly with Linux and Unix variants, but there is also a pre-packaged Windows build.  It has no problem running on server.<\/p>\n<p>So now, in addition to using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\">avast! Home<\/a> on my Windows workstation, I&#8217;ve also got postfix scanning every incoming (and outgoing) email message and silently deleting anything that&#8217;s infected.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got fed up with seeing infected email messages in my inbox.  Even though avast! properly detected them and marked them as infected &#8211; it was still a pain seeing them in the first place.  (I also wanted to have a more &#8220;backend&#8221; solution to everything in general.)  After doing a bit of hunting around, I was happy to stumble across ClamAV.<\/p>\n<p>In combination with <a href=\"http:\/\/assp.sourceforge.net\/\">ASSP<\/a>, this now means that I&#8217;m working towards finally having an email solution that will only deliver to me (and anybody else who&#8217;s email gets to them via Virgil, my server)  legitimate, virus free messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently implemented a server side anti-virus solution using ClamAV. This is a freeware utility, mostly with Linux and Unix variants, but there is also a pre-packaged Windows build. It has no problem running on server. So now, in addition to using avast! Home on my Windows workstation, I&#8217;ve also got postfix scanning every incoming &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/04\/creating_a_viru\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Creating a virus free zone.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}