Jason Haar wrote:
> > scan4virus provides a "generic filter/scanner" to filter out eMails with
> > a specific attachment name - which in case of "I love you" is a good
> > thing, but it's very easy to change the file name (or the subject line),
> > according to BugTraq this has happend.
>
> Err - no scan4virus contains a "generic filter" IN ADDITION TO support for other
> commercial virus scanners.
> Currently Trend, MacAffee, HBEDV and Sophos.
Yes, I know that. The word "also/moreover/too" is missing in the
sentence above. Sorry for that - it wasn't intended to make a false
statemant about scan4virus. To few sleep in the past days :-(
> My original rationale for developing my own virusscanner wrapper was that I had
> some security concerns with AmaVis which weren't shared by the author, it didn't
Huh? Can you tell me more, please? Maybe you can simple repost/forward
your old mails to me. Thx a lot!
> support Qmail, and it was a shell script instead of a more "secure" language like
> perl (well, "perl -T").
Well, that's why we startet AMaViS-perl (written by Chris Mason) :-) See
www.unixzone.com/virus/
> Maybe some of these reasons no longer apply, but I doubt it operates as efficiently
> as scan4virus does (i.e. at the qmail-queue level) - that would be difficult to do
> and retain conpatibility with postfix and sendmail...
Well, AMaViS-perl does :-)
> Anyway, variety is the spice of life...
Yes. Competition is welcome :-)
cheers, Rainer
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