Scanning for Virii on the mail server. Urgh I've had lots of bad experiences with virus scanner on the server, due to it hogging server resources like you wouldn't believe. I'd prefer the Checkpoint style of handing it off to something else for scanning for a volume solution.
After all that whining, I still think it would be useful. I'll take a look... -- Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 January 2003 17:09 > To: James-Dev Mailing List > Cc: Kurt Huwig > Subject: Adding virus detection to James > > > Consider this: > http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_mgsp.html. From what > I read, 80% of corporate mail servers now incorporate some > form of virus detection. > > It would be nice if James had a matcher capable of virus > detection. I came across this article > http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1650, > and the > associated OpenAV project at www.openantivirus.org. > > Imagine my pleasure at finding that the official projects, > ScannerDaemon, VirusHammer and PatternFinder, are written in > Java. The project page mentions GPL, but their > SourceForge.net page mentions that it is also licensed under > BSD, so we'll just have to ask for clarification, and make > sure that we have some Open Source, non-GPL, license, as > we've received from other cooperative projects. > > I think that this looks interesting, but I expect my own time > to be consumed on other parts of James. Does someone else > have the time and interest to look at wrapping a Matcher > around the OpenAV scanner classes? > > --- Noel > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:james-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
