From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 10:25:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC0437B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA75274; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:38:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus scanning In-Reply-To: <20010725120115.A10409@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A sendmail util should be able to just deal with any email where there is a pattern match. Its just gettin the patterns that Im having trouble with. On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0400, Stephen Hovey wrote: > > > > I wrote a wedge into mail.local to filter (drop) infected emails - is > > there any known place on the net where email viruses and their patterns > > are listed/maintained? I just keep adding the ones I see come thru my > > system, but it would be nice to have a more complete set. > > Was thinking along those lines last night. Am building inflex right now > to see what it offers (/usr/ports/security/inflex/) and hints for > malicious files. > > Years ago the best antivirus scanner for the Mac was the freeware > Disinfectant. Would want any virus scanner to be able to scan for > multiplatform baddies. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message