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Free Anti-Virus for MailScanner

Avast! Linux Home Edition

Download page: http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php

tar zxf avast4workstation-1.0.8.tar.gz

cp -R avast4workstation-1.0.8 /usr/local/avast

/usr/local/avast/bin/avast

Please enter the key here:
your_license_key (Free Registration)

cd /usr/local/avast/bin

#for update_virus_scanners (MailScanner's virus updater)
ln -s avast-update avastvpsupdate.sh

./avast-update

vi /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf

avast /usr/lib/MailScanner/avast-wrapper /usr/local/avast

vi /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

Virus Scanners = avast

/etc/init.d/MailScanner reload

F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Workstation

Download page: http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/

cd /opt

tar zxf fp-Linux-i686-ws.tar.gz

./f-prot/install-f-prot.pl

vi /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

Virus Scanners = f-prot-6

/etc/init.d/MailScanner reload

AVIRA AntiVir

Download page: http://www.free-av.com/en/download/download_servers.php

tar zxf antivir-workstation-pers.tar.gz

cd antivir-workstation-pers-2.1.12-19

./install

Do you agree to the license terms? y
Enter the path to your key file: [hbedv.key] (Enter)
Would you like to install the internet update daemon? n
How should AvGuard be installed? n
Would you like to install the GUI (+ SMC support)? n
Would you like to configure the AntiVir updater now? y
Would you like to notification about updates? n
Would you like the updater to log to a custom file? y
What will be the log file name with absolute path (it must begin with '/')? [/var/log/avupdater.log] (Enter)
Does this machine use an HTTP proxy server? n
Save configuration settings? y

antivir --update

vi /etc/MailScanner.conf

Virus Scanners = antivir

/etc/init.d/MailScanner reload

echo "-b /usr/lib/AntiVir" >> /etc/prelink.conf (Ref: http://dtconan.cn/read.php/34.htm#entrymore )

Checking everything is ok: MailScanner --lint