On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 at 21:31:45 -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The company I work for has implemented a firewall that only allows certain
> > activity through it. I have requested that the user agent string
> > "clamav/*" be allowed to communicate with the internet.
>
> sorry, but blocking at the firewall/proxy level based on user-agent is
> one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. If they are doing it to
> disallow 'viruses' and whatnot from traversing the firewall, well, the
> virus writer can TRIVIALLY change the user-agent string to.. say.. IE,
> and get right through. In fact, since clamav provides the source for
> you, you should be able to TRIVIALLY change the user-agent string.
>
> grep, $EDITOR, and an exercise for the reader. Problem solved.
>
> -Jeremy
In devel version's ChangeLog there is:
Fri Jan 27 16:01:31 CET 2006 (tk)
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* freshclam: new option HTTPUserAgent to force different User-Agent header
Patch by Andy Fiddaman <clam*fiddaman.net>
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