Re: Virii on vger.kernel.org lists

Dominik Kubla
2001-08-01T10:50:27Z

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 07:02:18PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:

> Is there any way we can set up an automatic virus scan of all
> attachments at vger, and have it deal with any virii at source?

Yes: www.amavis.org

> Come to that, is there a decent Linux-based virus scanner around?

The german antivirus tool AntiVir is free for personal use (www.free-av.com)
and i am pretty sure they would sponsor a version for the list server if asked
(if linux-kernel would be considered commercial use).

But even better would be to also use the procmail sanitizer:
ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html

It does not scan for virii but defangs attachments and html tags so that
braindamaged apps would not automatically execute the required interpreter
for the virus.

Dominik Kubla
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