Re: [Assp-user] Virus Scanning Options?

[Ced P. <cp...@fe...>]

Is anyone else still using John Hanna's tuned.db, or is that also now
out-of-date? Its timestamp is still regularly updated on the assp site.

Ced


ass...@li... on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 6:48 PM
-0500 wrote:
>Hi All-
>
>I've been a happy administrator of ASSP 1.0.9 running
>on a Windows 2000 server for a while now for a small
>school.  I finally might have the time to update, and
>I really want to, mostly for the anti-virus
>functionality.
>
>I'm a bit discouraged by many of the posts here about
>clam av and the hashes not being updated any more.  Is
>there an alternative?
>
>I know antivirus isn't a priority, but has there been
>any exploration of using a module like ClamAV::Client,
>File::Scan::ClamAV, or Mail::ClamAV to scan some kind
>of temporary file?  It would be an expensive
>operation, but might be workable.  I envision having
>ASSP invoke the external module's scanning funciton
>only if an attachment is found in a message.  I have
>no idea if it's possible to scan a scalar using these
>modules or if a temp file would need to be saved.  I
>don't have the programming skills necessary to explore
>any of this.
>
>Any other suggestions for a SINGLE box, windows 2000
>server, running ASSP and IPlanet Messaging Server?  I
>might be able to add a low end linux box to the mix if
>that would make a difference.
>
>Thanks
>Ken
>
>
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