From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Staudemeyer Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:34:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] management of virus and p2p-traffic Message-Id: <1087918842.2861.14.camel@turtle> List-Id: References: <1087839362.4786.0.camel@turtle> In-Reply-To: <1087839362.4786.0.camel@turtle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 17:06, Ed Wildgoose wrote: > >The Windows machines with their viruses give me a > >headache. I do not want to enforce remote Windows patching and > >virusscanner updating. It should also be taken into account that there > >is nearly no money available for any special equipment. Best would be to > >get this job done with a couple of old computers. > > > > > > One thing you could address is that most virus's arrive via smtp. Can > you scan inbound smtp traffic, perhaps with clamav? Or do users have > their own external email accounts? > > We have a Novel Groupwise service that should be used for email (via the managed 3Mbit connection). That system supports spam-filtering and virus-scanning. Unfortunately that service does not support any security functions and is not reliable. There will be not much change about that. So I want and I must support users who use their external email accounts. Ralf _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/