[Devil-linux-develop] Re: Devil-Linux Feature Request: pop3vscan

[Heiko Z. <smi...@zu...>]

I'll add it to our list.
One of our biggest problems is, that we can't include a commercial virus scanner. 

What is a good FREE virusscanner for Linux ?

Heiko

The following message was sent by Johannes Niess <j....@un...> on 06 Aug 2002 12:37:47 +0200.

> Heiko,
> 
> I tried to join the DL mailing list, but got bitten by Sourcforge mail
> envelope header verification and our DL firewall blocking port 25 from
> outside. So I misused Sourceforge's Support Request ([ 588077 ]
> Feature Request: pop3vscan). I assumed this would end up in the
> DL mailing list archive, but it's not there and no other sign of beiing
> noticed. So I apologize for this unsolicited personal mail. The
> Sourceforge email went like this:
> 
> 
> I just found http://pop3vscan.sourceforge.net. It's a transparent
> virus scanning proxy for POP3 mail attachments. They are de-MIMEed and
> send to an external file virus scanner of your choice.  I'd love to
> see it in Devil Linux. AFIK it's the only reasonable way to battle
> mail viruses if your POP3 mailbox and mail server is outside of your
> DL firewalled net and only POP3 clients are inside.
> 
>  Some features (exerpt from their web site):
> 
>  No client configuration necessary: Because POP3VScan is a full 
> transparent proxy nothing but the scanning-server has to be 
> configured. 
> Fast scanning: POP3VScan supports the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 
> Daemon (kavd) and the Trophie Daemon (which uses the 
> Trend-AV Engine). Using kavd a Pentium-133 was able to scan 
> nearly 500 mails in just one minute! 
> deMIMEing: Since most scanners doesn't support decoding of 
> MIME-Messages we have to do, for high-speed we have it 
> built-in (using ripmime). 
> Flexible scanner-configuration: Almost every scanner can be 
> configured easily. Just set the capabilities of your scanner, the 
> exit-code it gives when a mail is found and make a regular- 
> expression which tells how to extract the virusname. 
> Notification: Instead of the virus we send a notification to the 
> client, which can be customized using a template. 
> Written in C ...which means that it's faster than using a 
> script-language. 
> It's free POP3VScan is released under the General Public License 
> (GPL), which means that it's free to use and also the source is 
> available. 
> 
>  Johannes Nieß
>  j....@un...
> 
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