From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 17:07:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2044D16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:07:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DDE43D53 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:07:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548E858C5; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60018-08; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17D7158BA; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127CB5823; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Joshua Lewis In-Reply-To: <39e40a46f8ca2a4e0a3f2dca.20050608093038.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Message-ID: <20050608100605.X60748@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <39e40a46f8ca2a4e0a3f2dca.20050608093038.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network AV server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:07:12 -0000 > Could someone point me in the right direction to create a network server > that scans networks systems for Virus and acts on the viruses accordingly. > > I have a FreeBSD system that I would like to turn into a virus scanner > (among other things) but I don't know how or what scanners are available > and/or recommended. http://clamav.net/ A GPL virus scanner featuring: * command-line scanner * fast, multi-threaded daemon * milter interface for sendmail * database updater with support for digital signatures * virus scanner C library * on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD) * detection of over 35000 viruses, worms and trojans * built-in support for RAR (2.0), Zip, Gzip, Bzip2, Tar, MS OLE2, MS Cabinet files, MS CHM (Compressed HTML), MS SZDD * built-in support for mbox, Maildir and raw mail files * built-in support for Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, and Petite Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .