Re: Antivirus Scanning Gateway

["Jett Tayer" <jett@sycorax.ath.cx>]

try mailscanner+openbsd
u can get mailscanner from mailscanner.info
it has native support for obsd.

\jett





> 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.