[Cscmail-devel] Virus Scanner

[Gavin B. <jo...@sp...>]

Hi guys,

It occured to me that it wouldn't be very difficult to implement a virus
scanner within CSCMail, using File::Scan. Attachments could be scanned as
they're retrieved, and an alert could be shown to the user. Admittedly,
the risk of infection from a virus is quite low on a UNIX system, but
being able to detect when you've received an infected document would be
quite useful if you happen to be a UNIX user in an office of Windows
boxen.

I've been thinking about developing a patch, any thoughts before I give it
a go? I haven't hacked the CSCMail code before, but it's something I've
been thinking of doing for a while now.

Gavin.

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