From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 9 10:16:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BCA37B400; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0643E4A; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H2600AF7LAXTR@mtaout01.icomcast.net>; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:16:11 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Anti-virus section for FAQ In-reply-to: <318821464.20020909160529@internethelp.ru> To: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Nickolay A. Kritsky wrote: > Hello Lawrence, > > Friday, September 06, 2002, 10:23:43 PM, you wrote: > > LS> Oops, helps if I post the url eh ;) > > LS> http://www.thesicafamily.org/larry/articles/avfaq.html > > I would like to add to this list following AV solution: > "Procmail Email Sanitizer" - > http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html > > To comment the FAQ itself. I do not think that just the list of > antivirus packages is a good answer for FAQ. The thing is, that > freqentissimus AV-related question sounds like "What is the best AV > for freebsd/sendmail/qmail?" not just "What kind of antiviruses do you > know?". I think, that it would be truly useful if people, who have an > experience with setting up AV on FreeBSD share their knowledge with > us in the manner like this: The goes beyond the purpose of the FAQ tho, it was meant to be a short list of possible software out there. More information would be suited more towards a handbook information. To do that for every package would make it a seperate FAQ. I had planned on a more in depth article as well, but for the FAQ a short, simple list is best imho. Other opinions? This list is meant to be an unbiased bit on what is out there, not an in depth review and rating of each package.. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message