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I have been reading a lot about antiviruses and linux , but i still have one question.
Is there a way to set up clam av or any other AV to scan my email so i do not pass some nasties to my contacts .
There used to be thunderbird extension that made it easy , but it is obsolete now.
If you're sending an attachment, I'm afraid the only way is to manually check that particular file with clam av (you use the GUI right?).Quote:
Originally Posted by sigurnjak
In any case, I don't think anyone sends enough attachments to actually need a lot of time to scan them.
The only possible solution I can see, which is quite complicated, would be to set up a cron job that's set to automatically execute a bash script. That bash script would tell clamav to scan a particular directory (the one where Thunderbird stores your emails) and log the results somewhere. Either way, it's not simple and I don't know if it will work with attachments.
Post up if you have any trouble doing that. I can't give you any directions of the top of my head right now, but a quick Google search should reveal plenty of guides that tell you how to write cron jobs, scripts etc.
I think you may be able to do some of this with Bitdefender scanner for unices and kmail combination - have a look at BD's help file. (I use BD, but have never tried to scan mail - gmail does that well enough for me)
I think the filter that comes pre-set up will just add a flag to the header to say the message was infected. You would have to invent another filter to read the flag and do something about it I think.
Thank you both for suggestions . For now i will trust google , but i may try out BD and kmail as i am right now undecided which DE to stick with on a LS Ubuntu since Unity just does not feel right .