In a past life I worked on a commercial product that did this
sort for thing. Yes, you can intercept traffic and scan it
for virii (sp?), the problem is that as traffic increases
such a system tends to become a bottle-neck. For small sites
this isn't likely to be a problem, but imagine trying to do
this at a large corp ( the type of place that can have significant
monetary damage done by a rampant virus ). For it to scale
well you would need the option to setup something like a cluster
of mail servers with load balancing. And then there are the other
protocols to worry about.
That I know of there is no technical obstacle, but to my knowledge
nobody has done this yet. Might make for an interesting Beowulf
project.
Enrico Payne wrote:
>
> The problem with the majority of the virus scanners for Linux, is the fact
> that they need to be run manually, or triggered by an event such as the
> receiving of e-mail. From what I understood from the original post, the
> ideal situation would be a virus engine that runs as a daemon, continually
> scanning any file activity on the server, as well as http and ftp activity.
> To date, I have only found one that promises to do this, "KasperSkyLab @
> www.kasperskylab.ru", but was unable to get the daemon section to work.
>
> Regards
> Enrico
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 4:55 AM
> Subject: Re: virus scanner?
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> > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Dan Horth wrote:
> >
> > > as in I want to protect the clients getting email and surfing through
> > > the proxy.
> >
> > McAfee sells a scanner for Linux. Might do what you want.
> >
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