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 Subject: Re: Virus checking e-mail attachments Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980408185554.28066c-100000@ultra.ultra.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408092606.12572e-100000@ns0.fast.net.uk>
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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 ********************************************************** * Karl Hanmore * #include<stddisclaim.h> * * avatar@ultra.net.au * * ********************************************************** * Insanity is a perfectly rational adaptation to an * * insane world. * ********************************************************** 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/ > PGP Key Available | Finger netadmin@fastnet.co.uk > : > Tel: +44 (0)1273 677633 . Fax: +44 (0)1273 621631 > FastNet International Ltd - The User-Friendly Internet Provider > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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