Buchan Milne <bgmilnecae.co.za> writes:

> I just saw that a virus scanning patch for Squid has been made available
> at http://www.openantivirus.org/, which scans using ther own virus
> scanner. I am not sure if it can be used with commercial scanners.. They
> also have samba-vscan, which supports Trend Micro (via trophie) and Sophos
> (via Sophie).
>
> They also have their own virus scanner and definition finder. While an
> open source solution will probably never be good at scanning for virii
> (well, a better open source solution is probably to replace all the
> vulnerable closed-source software), but it is better than nothing for home
> use, and useful for an out-the-box setup (before someone has the time to
> buy commercial scanners)
>
> Any possibility of someone doing some of the work to get these into
> cooker/Mandrake. How about on SNF?
>
> Amavis apparently now also supports the Open source scanner. So maybe an
> out-the-box postfix/amavis/oav setup, which can be setup for commercial
> scanners with ease?
>
> Buchan

bad news about this ...

this will need jre >= 1.2 which is on the commercial cds ... so, forget
about it ... same thing for SNF which is entirely GPL ...

cheers,

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