Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:05:37 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000504205419.26609A-100000@ns.uninet.ee> In-Reply-To: <002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve. > lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was > launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. > If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that > were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea. Yes, I was talking about virus scanning on behalf of Windows users. Anyway, most files, emails, web pages are served or pass through unix (and quite often *BSD) systems. There seems to be program called AMAVIS (http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html), which can do some scanning. It probably needs some investigation and freebsd porting. best regards, taavi ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10 | fax: +372 6405151 Tallinn 10143, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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