From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 8 01:59:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24059 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns0.fast.net.uk (ns0.fast.net.uk [194.207.104.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24038 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netadmin@fastnet.co.uk) Received: from ns0.fast.net.uk (ns0.fast.net.uk [194.207.104.1]) by ns0.fast.net.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA21452 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:56:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:56:39 +0100 (BST) From: Jay Tribick X-Sender: netadmin@ns0.fast.net.uk To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus checking e-mail attachments Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | > 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.. ;) Jay Tribick | 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