Jason and Serge,
If we re-do the processing chain as I would like, then we could hand off the
virus checking to some asynchronous matcher without unduly degrading the
server.
Also, if you would only filter messages that have attachments in the first
place, then the vast majority of messages would be unfiltered.
OpenAV may not be the best, but I didn't spot any other open source engine
that we could include with James. And supposedly OpenAV continues to get
development. I was not thinking that we'd use their "driver" without
change, but that we'd see how the driver worked, and call the scanning
classes directly. On the other hand, if someone wants to work on a matcher
that knows how to use an external scanning service, that'd be fine with me.
--- Noel
[who was on the road yesterday, and is looking at
a huge volume of new James messges]
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:16
To: 'James Developers List'
Subject: RE: Adding virus detection to James
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
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