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Subj: avcheck-0.9.tgz
I ran a WINDOWS Mcafee VirusScan of the FreeBSD install disk (v 4.7) included w/ the book 'SAMS Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours' and it identified a file on the CD, avcheck-0.9.tgz' as a virus.
Can you provide any other information regarding this file?
Thank you.
--rs
That would be the source tarball for the following 3rd party software:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin]
#whereis avcheck avcheck: /usr/ports/security/avcheck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin]
#cd /usr/ports/security/avcheck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/usr/ports/security/avcheck] #more pkg-descr
Avcheck is a simple program that allows you to call an antivirus software in order to check mail messages for viruses before actual delivery from within a Mail Transfer Agent, or MTA.
Avcheck itself isn't a virusscanner, nor it is an MTA. It sits between the MTA and a real antivirus software. Most MTAs available today can call an external program for every mail message in order to perform various tasks, including virus scanning and content filtering. Avcheck can be used as that external program.
Avcheck will receive a mail message from a mail system, pass it to an antivirus software, and, depending on the presence of a virus in that message, will either allow the message to be delivered or take appropriate actions to handle infected mail.
Avcheck does nothing with a mail message contents -- it's task is to prepare file with a mail message and feed it to an antivirus progra. It's an antivirus task to decode MIME structure, handle embedded archives and so on. Many but not all antivirus products today have this ability.
WWW: http://www.corpit.ru/avcheck/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, still may not tell us much. ;)
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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