Re: ongoing textsearch/string match - 3 patches

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>]

Hi Amir,

amir73il@gmail.com wrote:
>>Could you comment any realistic scenario?
>>
> the usefulness of matching a pattern between packets is for network virus scan.
> it took me some time to finalize my kclamav module, but here it is:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kclamav/
> 
> I patched the string match netfilter because it was the closest filter
> to what I needed, but as I said, there is still work to be done to
> make this a useful virus scan filter.
> perhaps a more generic "content filter" is more appropriate here.
> 
> I hope you will find this contribution useful and help me get my
> patches into the kernel.

Sorry for not replying. I haven't forgotten this. I think I can improve
that patch. I'll give it a spin this weekend and I'll get back to you.

-- 
Pablo