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. > >

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 http://www.atlantawebhost.com/article

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 >

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 Mark Knecht
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 16:12, Manuel McLure wrote: > Have you tried amavis? It hooks into the postfix delivery chain, and > will recursively extract all files from archives and check them for > viruses using the antivirus of your choice. So you can be sent a virused > exe inside a zip inside an

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: Hi, This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a /etc/postfix/mime_header_

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: > > > Hi, > >This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip > > file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. > > > I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a > /etc/postfix/mime_header

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 message

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

2004-01-28 Thread patrick . marquetecken
> Hi, >This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip > file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. I disagree, postfix can stop those attachments, if you got a /etc/postfix/mime_header_checks.regexp and it contains this rule /filename=\"?(.*)\.(bat|chm|

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: &

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
> 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 > emergin

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 wh

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