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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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