Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-29 Thread Guy Van Sanden
This will only check incoming messages, and I have not tested this setup personally. Download and install clamav and set up automatic signature updating. Create a folder 'virus' or something in evolution, now set up a filter like is adviced for spamassasin at

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-29 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:41:51 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, It's in the attachment. Conceptually I receive an email with an attachment that has a virus. It doesn't bother me, but I forward the email to someone else and they get infected via the attachment. Am I

[gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Although I'm not going to be personally infected by this new Windows worm, it would be nice not to forward it on to others and have them mad at me for the fact they use Windows. What package should I look at emerging to add virus protection to Evolution? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 15:29, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Although I'm not going to be personally infected by this new Windows worm, it would be nice not to forward it on to others and have them mad at me for the fact they use Windows. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote: Why would you forward the virus onto anyone, when you are immune? I think he meant that if he got an email with the virus and then forwarded that email - and its attachment - onto a Windows user. Rather than have the worm spread by itself. Now

RE: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 15:29, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Although I'm not going to be personally infected by this new Windows worm, it would be nice not to forward it on to others and have them mad at me for the fact they use Windows. What package should I look at emerging to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 13:20, David Gethings wrote: To answers the posters original question: I am personally not aware of any AV software for Linux. I would presume there are none for the above reasons. clamav. It's in portage. Peter --

RE: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: David Gethings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote: Why would you forward the virus

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread patrick . marquetecken
snip Hi, This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. /snip I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a /etc/postfix/mime_header_checks.regexp and it contains this rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Eric G Ortego
David Gethings wrote: I am personally not aware of any AV software for Linux. I would presume there are none for the above reasons. f-prot is a virus scanning package for linux that is in portage. Also several mta's have the ability to do attachment filtering, one mta-proxy I like is

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hi, This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. /snip I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Manuel McLure
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hi, This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. /snip I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread lukas
On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:06, Mark Knecht wrote: work. I was looking for a solution that would just work with Evolution, like Norton works with Outlook. Do I really need to run a server to get local virus protection? Bummer... I don't know any solution that can do that (but maybe there

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users

2004-01-28 Thread Nicholas Hockey
http://pop3vscan.sourceforge.net/ dunno about any imap ones. On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:24, lukas wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:06, Mark Knecht wrote: work. I was looking for a solution that would just work with Evolution, like Norton works with Outlook. Do I really need to run a