Clam AV on Smoothwall Express

[FN-GM]

Hi

 

Please can someone point me in the right direction of getting clam anti-virus working on smoothwall please?

 

thanks

[ChrisH]

What version?

[FN-GM]

Sorry Smoothwall express 3

[Geoff]

I would of thought it was just a case of turning it on in the GUI?

[mrtechsystems]

Yeah easy just configure the proxy

 

Right click on the Icon goto prop's the HTTP bingo download all the updates

 

:-)

[ZeroHour]

One thing, to prevent performance issues I would disable scanning of .jpg and .gif files.

[tom_newton]

FN - I'm not in the office today. If you're still stuck, let me know monday and I will have a tinker, make sure I got the right detail!

[Guest Guest]

Its easy enough, you just have to make sure Dansguardian is running and it will then be able to start.

[FN-GM]

thanks guys, i still cant find it. Will give tom a ring

[contink]

Word of caution, if you're using it to scan emails it can fall over if an update fails and it then loses all email content for any emails it scans. As a rule I'd recommend disabling that aspect of it.

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

i still didnt get this sorted. I thought i would have another crack tonight. Any help please?

[kmount]

Did you ring Tom as you said you were going to?

[FN-GM]

No i forgot to be honest i cant fing now. I ideally i would like someone to help on here so i can look back if i need to

[tom_newton]

I'll check someones express box when i get to the office tomorrow, hopefully post some sage advice then.

[FN-GM]

Thanks, i cant find anything in the GUI to turn it on.

[Guest Guest]

Thanks, i cant find anything in the GUI to turn it on.

 

Do you realise you dont turn it on as such, not directly anyway. You need to enable virus scanning in Dansguardian/HavP?/email/etc, and it will turn on by itself (or maybe you can turn it on then, click on the shield). Unless something is using it it will remain inactive

 

It can be abit of a pain i know, its one of the reason im using Endian instead. Smoothwall express 3 has never been as complete or stable as 2 imho, far too much initial work to get the system i want anyway.

I seem to remember something about clamAV not updating properly aswell, cant remember the full details but you needed to edit the cron job to make the update process output to "null" or else it would fail. Or something along those lines. Check the forums, ive found them to be really helpful.

Edited June 2, 2009 by Guest

[tom_newton]

j17 is correct - you need to enable clam in the proxies where you want to AV scan.

[FN-GM]

So show would i actually do it please?

[FN-GM]

Hi Tom,

 

did you manage to get chance to have a look.

 

Thanks

[tom_newton]

Fn - sorry, totally forgot!

Just installing Express3 now, see if I can refresh my ailing memory

[tom_newton]

OK.. done and checked... it seems AV in Express3 is only on Pop3 email. IT should be on automatically, though I don't have a pop account to hand to test the theory

 

Tom

[FN-GM]

ah blast.

 

thanks anyway

[tom_newton]

What were you wanting it for? Might be able to help out... let me know

[Guest Guest]

ah blast.

 

thanks anyway

 

Its only a 10minute job to install DG on SW. But like i said id give Endian a blast first.

[FN-GM]

I was under the impression it would scan all internet traffic for viruses. That’s was i want really