Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:44:17 +0400 From: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.intermedia.ru> To: Lars Jonas Olsson <ljo@mcs.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirusWall on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199705220944.NAA24670@asteroid.intermedia.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 May 1997 12:02:32 CDT." <199705191702.MAA14701@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
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> I've got a FreeBSD machine that provides WWW and email services for a > small company (60 people is this office). I'd like to detect > MSDOS/Windows viruses sent via email and WWW on this machine. I fear you'll overload your server by infinite checking, for you'll have to check also .zip, .arj and a dozen of other archives, and still you'll unable to prevent users to bring viruses, say, on floppies (we're hunting for floppy with OneHalf for half a year, without any success). Well, and what if your user will get encrypted file with virus? Alex.
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