Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:56:39 +0100 (BST) From: Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus checking e-mail attachments Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408095627.12572g-100000@ns0.fast.net.uk>
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| > 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) ?
| >
| > What I'm looking for is something that, if it detects a virus can
| > encapsulate an e-mail and warn the user that they should check it.
|
| McAffee has a version of VirusScan for Linux and Solaris.. If you wrote a
| script to take each mail spool file and unencode the attachments, you
| could scan them. Unfortunately, you can't just scan the spool itself,
| you have to scan the binary itself. It just uses the same virus files
| that the PC version have, so it will only protect you from PC viruses.
Trouble is, a lot of people send attachments mime encoded and theres
no simple way to decode it (correct me if i'm wrong..)
I know the package your talking about and I have actually used it
on another machine but I was looking more for a dedicated solution -
writing my own isn't a problem, it's just a pain in the ass and I'd
prefer to just buy a dedicated solution.
| Food for thought..
Yummy.. ;)
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