Good Antivirus solution

Problem reported by Manuel - 8/20/2015 at 11:01 PM

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Hello,

I have SmarterMail Enteeprise 14.2

I have many problems with ClamAV.

Many times viruses are not detected (especially when contained in zip or rar).

Many times ClamAV failes scand and I find this error on log:

Unable to run Clam virus checks: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:3310

I search definitive solution for a good antivirus.

You have any suggestions on a good antivirus to integrate with SmarterMail ?

Tnx

Manuel

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ScottF Replied

8/21/2015 at 6:31 AM

We have a similar problem. After we restart our server ClamAV will run for a day or so and then it fails. We start getting many of the "Unable to run Clam virus checks..." messages in the delivery log.

Webio Replied

8/21/2015 at 10:37 PM

IMHO you should try to install on your Windows system separate ClamAV instance instead one provided with SmarterMail.

Try this one:

http://www.clamwin.com/

After installing it install it as a service (I think there is a .bat file for that in installation directory) and then create scheduled task directly in Windows scheduled tasks for running freshclam every day. Then mark ClamAV as a remote service in SmarterMail but keep other configuration (like 127.0.0.1).

Read also this topic:

http://portal.smartertools.com/community/a86419/sm-14-clamsup-problems-and-how-to-fix-them-temporarily-at-least.aspx

solution provided by Joe greatly improves ClamAV performance (I'm also using it - paid version - on all of my gateways).

Here you have stats for yesterday (21.08.2015) one of three gateways which I use:

8/21/2015 - 80421 46

first number if Connections and second one is Failed Connections. Here you have information from Viruses section im Reports:

8/21/2015 40299

Running ClamAV managed by SmarterMail caused my a lot of issues and starting ClamAV as a separate service fixed all of them.

Regards

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