Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>There isn't any free software to scan for viruses.
>>So we can't install a virus scanner.
>>What else would you have us do?
Hi, I saw this on Freshmeat : http://www.vanja.com/tools/
>Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti
>virus vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie
>initializes SAVI (Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus
>patterns into memory, opens local UNIX domain socket, and waits
>for someone to connect and instructs it which path to scan. Since
>the database is loaded in RAM, scanning is very fast. (Note: speed
>of scanning also depends on SAVI settings and size of the file.)
>It has been tested on Linux and Solaris (Sparc), and also compiles
>on FreeBSD (not extensively tested). It was made as a part of
>'Virge' project, which is a mail/attachment/virus scanning tool
>(and procmail replacement), written in C.
The tools are GPLed, but it can't find if this SAVI libs is freely
usable. Perhaps it could be a solution for the last days of virus
infection ?
Cheers, yann.
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