Re: Antivirus Scanning Gateway

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Lars Hansson (lars@unet.net.ph):
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:49:50 +0800
> "Joe Lim" <Joe.Lim@sit.edu.my> wrote:
...
> > (d) Sophie
> > http://www.vanja.com/tools/sophie/
> > (based on Sophos SAVI AV interface)
> 
> On Openbsd you'll have to run this in Linux emulation and you might
> need to patch it (cant remember if Vanja ever added my patches to the
> source).

Which doesn't work really well for BSD/PPC.

The bottom line is that viruses are not without cost and
good Anti-virus is not without cost.


But if you have no Windows, and especially no Outlook, the risk
of email borne viruses falls terrifically.

Outlook with find and run attachments without warning.  Even better,
they will find things that aren't MIME (either really malformed
MIME or their proprietary TNEF formats which change).

The cause for all these viruses is NOT that Outlook is prevalent
-- it's that Outlook is promiscuous.

Remove Outlook and you reduce your exposure. Users MUST run an
attachment by hand.

Remove WINDOWS and your exposure drops ever further.

You need to run desktop AV no matter what (not sure about OS X
virusses - the only attack I'm aware of was through Entourage (by,
er, Microsoft - go figure)) so you can likely let your desktop
AV stuff work.