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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:02:08 +1000 (EST)
From: Karl Hanmore <avatar@ultra.ultra.net.au>
To: Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk>
cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
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G'day,
	I am probably stateing the obvious here, but in the Security
section of the ports collection there is vscan-1.0.2, which will scan
files.  If you wanted to, you could probably write a script to un-mime or
un-uuencode files from email, and then check them.  Sure seems like lot of
effort, but hey....

Regards,
	Karl

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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jay Tribick wrote:

> 
>  Hi
> 
>  | > There seems to be a lot of products available for Windoze NT etc. that
>  | > run on a mail server and scan e-mails (or their attachments) for
>  | > viruses.
>  | >
>  | > Is their anything available for FreeBSD that does this (or any
>  | > other flavour of UN*X) ?
>  | 
>  | No.  What would it do?  I don't know of any UNIX viruses.
> 
>  I don't mean scanning for UN*X viruses, I mean scanning people's
>  e-mails for any Windows 95 / DOS viruses etc. Basically so that
>  people who pick up their mail from us have the reassurances that
>  their e-mail attachments don't contain viruses. Their are
>  products available for NT that do this so I don't see why
>  UN*X wouldn't have a product that does this.
> 
>   Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk> | Network Administrator
>              FastNet International Ltd | http://www.fastnet.co.uk/
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>                                        :  
>                Tel: +44 (0)1273 677633 . Fax: +44 (0)1273 621631
>        FastNet International Ltd - The User-Friendly Internet Provider
> 
> 
> 
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