On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us,
> > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus
> > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs
> > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve.
> lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was
> launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited.
> If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that
> were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea.
Yes, I was talking about virus scanning on behalf of Windows users.
Anyway, most files, emails, web pages are served or pass through
unix (and quite often *BSD) systems. There seems to be program
called AMAVIS (http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html), which
can do some scanning. It probably needs some investigation and
freebsd porting.
best regards,
taavi
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