Re: RAV AntiVirus for Qmail

2001-06-25 Thread peter green
* Mihai Serban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010625 11:33]: > Dear Qmail users, [snip] Dear Mihai, Please add me to your list of people who will never use your service or software. Your advertisement is NOT appreciated on this mailing list, certainly not by me and likely not by others. /pg -- Peter Gre

RAV AntiVirus for Qmail

2001-06-25 Thread Mihai Serban
Dear Qmail users, GeCAD Software is glad to announce you the last release of RAV AntiVirus for Mail Servers: http://www.ravantivirus.com The product is available for: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. Subject: 1. RAV AntiVirus for Mail Servers new release 2. Protect critical company data! 3. Improve

Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread Lars Hansson
> hi all > > how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. > > i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql > > any help will appriciate http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net All information you need should be there. Cheers Lars Hansson Technical Consultant Unet Inc., Philippines

Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread Jeff Palmer
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:59 PM 6/14/01 +0530, you wrote: hi all   how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails.   i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql   any help will appriciate

how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread hari_bhr
hi all   how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails.   i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql   any help will appriciate

Re: AntiVirus

2001-06-06 Thread Mihai Serban
Hi, RAV AntiVirus can help you: http://www.ravantivirus.com regards, Mihai GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > > Hi all. > > Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail > (scan incomming and outgoing messages)? > > thanks > > --yapedu -- Software Dev

Re: AntiVirus

2001-06-06 Thread Daniel Riera
The best antivirus for qmail is AVP www.avp.ru D. Riera GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: >Hi all. > >Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail >(scan incomming and outgoing messages)? > >thanks > >--yapedu >

Re: AntiVirus

2001-06-05 Thread Hans Sandsdalen
At 14:28 05.06.01 -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: >Hi all. > >Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail >(scan incomming and outgoing messages)? > >thanks > >--yapedu Try http://www.math.ntnu.no/mirror/www.qmail.org/top.html#micros

RE: AntiVirus

2001-06-05 Thread Barry Smoke
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:29 PM To: qmail list Subject: AntiVirus Hi all. Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail (scan incomming and outgoing

AntiVirus

2001-06-05 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi all. Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail (scan incomming and outgoing messages)? thanks --yapedu

Re: antivirus for AIX 4.3.3

2001-04-17 Thread Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga
> Are there any documents describing the process step-by-step ? (I mean > AMaVis and qmail integration). > > Cheers, > Lukasz > The AMaVis anti-virus documentations are very complete, describes all the steps for qmail integration and other MTAs. Check it out at http://amavis.org B.R. -=-=-=

Re: antivirus for AIX 4.3.3

2001-04-17 Thread Lukasz Felsztukier
Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga wrote: > > > hello friends > > > > can some one please tell me which antivirus software is available for > > AIX platform > > and can be used with Amavis and qmail running on IBM AIX 4.3.3. > > > > i know only one s

Re: antivirus for AIX 4.3.3

2001-04-17 Thread Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga
> thanks a lot Augusto > > but is that Anti-virus softwrae available for AIX 4.3.3 platform , > > > thnaks & regards > Prashant Desai > Sure ;) And also, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, BSDi, SunOS and any other UNIX relevant system. Get a evaluation version on McAfee web site (I suggest to buy a co

Re: antivirus for AIX 4.3.3

2001-04-17 Thread Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga
> hello friends > > can some one please tell me which antivirus software is available for > AIX platform > and can be used with Amavis and qmail running on IBM AIX 4.3.3. > > i know only one sophos , any other is there > > thank & regards > Prashant

antivirus for AIX 4.3.3

2001-04-17 Thread Prashant Desai
hello friends can some one please tell me which antivirus software is available for AIX platform and can be used with Amavis and qmail running on IBM AIX 4.3.3. i know only one sophos , any other is there thank & regards Prashant Desai

Antivirus which can clean any infected mail

2001-03-23 Thread lkhanna
Dear all,   I am loooking for an antivirus which can scan as well as clean my all incoming and outgoing mails,   i am allready using amavis with mcafee. But with amavis only scaning is happening not cleaning . And i am looking for cleaning option .   Can you pl suggest me any ? Or is it

RE: antivirus

2001-03-23 Thread Frederic Beleteau
7:02 A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: antivirus Ciprian Iftode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need an antivirus who works with qmail in order to scan all the emails > that are going thru my server, incoming and outgoing. Do you know such > thing? www.qmail.org has the

Re: antivirus

2001-03-23 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ciprian Iftode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, could you recommend me some antivirus... I already answered your question earlier today. Please re-read it, and then go read what I told you to read in that message. Your answer is there. Re-posting the question with no changes w

Re: antivirus

2001-03-23 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ciprian Iftode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need an antivirus who works with qmail in order to scan all the emails > that are going thru my server, incoming and outgoing. Do you know such > thing? www.qmail.org has the information you

antivirus

2001-03-23 Thread Ciprian Iftode
Hi, could you recommend me some antivirus who will work with qmail in order to scan all emails that are going thru the server, incoming and outgoing. Freeware if is posible. 10x Ciprian Iftode, Professional Systems Romania str. Moara de Foc, nr.35, et.5

antivirus

2001-03-23 Thread Ciprian Iftode
Hi, I need an antivirus who works with qmail in order to scan all the emails that are going thru my server, incoming and outgoing. Do you know such thing? If posible to be freeware and up to date. Ciprian Iftode, Professional Systems Romania str. Moara de Foc, nr.35, et

RAV AntiVirus for Qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Mihai Serban
Dear Linux users, We are happy to announce that we have just issued a RAV AntiVirus version for Qmail. This beta version is now available on our site http://www.ravantivirus.com - free download, and we would really appreciate your feedback if you would take a time to install and run it! Thank

Re: qmail+antivirus question

2001-02-06 Thread Olivier M.
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:59:29PM +0100, Tore Micaelsen wrote: > Can anyone point me in the right direction? This should be easy to add to qmail-scanner... (perl) It's even planed AFAIK. Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROT

qmail+antivirus question

2001-02-06 Thread Tore Micaelsen
Have installed amavis with the fsav anti virus engine...works great. But would like to install this on a server with alot of virtual domains, and what im looking for is the possibility to specify which of the domains i want to scan for. ( Due to the heavy load of scanning all of them, and because

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So you are saying, the job of the system adminsitrator doesn't include > a) removing your www permissions because you remind him he has hairy legs Real BOFHs remove permissions because they feel like it, not because there actually is a reason.

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Lipscomb, Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 December 2000 at 09:20:05 -0500 > > > > > Al, please don't talk about stuff you don't understand. > > It's not a "product", it's free software. > > > Wrong. Talked to an attorney last night who specializes in this kind of > litigation. Person(

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan J. Mehl wrote: > Um, ISTR that the Morris Worm did a pretty good job of spreading over > heterogeneous UNIX-like systems over a variety of transports. The worm did not infect more than 10 % of all hosts. This estimate is based on the extrapolation of the number of infe

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:58:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > c) reminding users that, like the Canadian Inuit, who have 500 different > words for "snow", that the German language has 1000 different words for > "stupid". it hasn't, but it has thousands of ways to express ones stupidness.

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:54:01PM -0500, "Nathan J. Mehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Um, ISTR that the Morris Worm did a pretty good job of spreading over > heterogeneous UNIX-like systems over a variety of transports. And > despite his father's connections, RTM himself was basically a bo

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Felix von Leitner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > A good attack agent could spread itself using SMTP, RPC, FTP and IRC all at > > the same time. > > Yeah, and pigs can fly. > > The only people who would have a reason to spend the massive amounts of > time and money on this p

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Boyiazis
ED] > Subject: Re: AntiVirus! > > > On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 02:18:33 +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > > By the way, about the discussion about the net worth of > virus scanners, > > please have a look a the email I just got (no, I am not > making this up): >

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Andy Bradford
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 02:18:33 +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: > By the way, about the discussion about the net worth of virus scanners, > please have a look a the email I just got (no, I am not making this up): I can verify this---I too received a similar bounce from their group and sent them ba

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread kate
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > People will only notice the system administrator when something is broken. > So, the job of the system administrator is to be invisible. So you are saying, the job of the system adminsitrator doesn't include a) removing your www permissions becaus

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:18:52PM -0600, "John W. Lemons III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with this as well, but certainly you can see that there is some > level > of benefit from a two (or three) tier approach to virus > detection/prevention. How does doing virus checking twice he

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Milen Petrinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is the biggest lie of computing: that there is no choice. > > Everyone has hundreds of options, but the American culture apparently > > revolves around taking the wrong choice, blaming it on circumstances and > > whining about the consequenc

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Stuart Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. On > > > >the mail servers I run, I have installed some simple virus scanning > > > software, and it has, up to now, filtered out lots of incoming virii and > > > trojans, as w

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Lipscomb, Al
> > Al, please don't talk about stuff you don't understand. > It's not a "product", it's free software. > Wrong. Talked to an attorney last night who specializes in this kind of litigation. Person(s) X wrote code and person Y suffered a loss as a result of using that code. It does not matter if

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Milen Petrinski
> > This is the biggest lie of computing: that there is no choice. > Everyone has hundreds of options, but the American culture apparently > revolves around taking the wrong choice, blaming it on circumstances and > whining about the consequences. > Just an example: You are installing a new mail

OT: SNR on this list (was: RE: AntiVirus!)

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Merchberger
[Sorry, John, for that immediate send -- I *wish* Eudora didn't map to that - Unix's "end of line" keystroke habit bites me in the backside again...] On or about 09:58 PM 12/4/00 -0600, John W. Lemons III was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: >>I do too, but only to a point. Automat

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>I do too, but only to a point. Automated virus scanners reduce but do >not eliminate the risk of infection from viruses. > >However, virus scanners are NOT a solution. They are a band-aid to >aleviate the symptoms of the problem. The problem is a lack of >protection in the software (OS and app

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:25:05PM +, Uwe Ohse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:22:43PM -0600, John W. Lemons III wrote: > > >Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving > > >them access to non-solutions like virus scanners. > > I disagree with the assertion that

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
I was speaking of the kinds of files we filter in and out. Sorry we are having such a hard time communicating. -Original Message- From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 7:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AntiVirus! Thus spake John W

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Stuart Young
At 12:46 AM 5/12/00 +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: >Thus spake John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. On > > the mail servers I run, I have installed some simple virus scanning > > software, and it has, up to now, filtered

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Boyiazis
l Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 5:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AntiVirus! > > > Thus spake John W. Lemons III ([EM

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>It's been awhile since I've posted to this list, but I must point out >that this "watch and wait" vigil-style virii detection isn't really >all that useful when you're asleep and wake up the next morning to >your staff executing a script that is wiping the hard drives of every >machine on your ne

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>John, you just shot yourself in both feet with an elephant gun. Your >little sob story /proved/ that virus scanners are snakeoil. I fail to see how that "shot me in the foot". One of the features of our virus scanning procedure is the ability to filter out suspect files. I think you are a bit

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
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Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S . Socha
Quoting John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >Now that is impressive. You knew and could detect iloveyou before > >all the other people in the world? > > I was awake that night as the reports started coming accross the > wire. It was trivial to modify my filters and scan the mail boxes > b

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Brett Randall
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Now that is impressive. You knew and could detect iloveyou before >>all the other people in the world? > > I was awake that night as the reports started coming accross the > wire. It was trivial to modify my filters and scan the mail boxes > befor

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
> It was sent to a holding directory and a messages was sent to the admin > account alerting him of the incident. In this case it was so well known it > and the others received by that time were simply deleted rather than > analyzed, and the senders were notified. >Now that is impressive. >You k

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>Based on the fact that your virus scanner detected a few outgoing virii, >you assert not only that it has detected all of them. Please quote where I indicated perfection. >And the role of your IT department is to walk around and clean up virus >infections. One of the many roles of the IT staff

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Lipscomb, Al ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > See the words "TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW". There are lots of > places in this world where the law says the person who wrote it or the > person who gave it to you can be held liable no matter what they want to > disclaim. It depends on

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Lipscomb, Al ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > As long as people run Windows, there will be a virus and > > trojan problem. > And Unix is immune to Trojans and worms? Unix is so heterogenous that it is next to impossible to write a portable exploit. It will of course always be possible to expl

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Adam McKenna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I find it astonishing that people don't sue Microsoft for this. > > A whole industry thrives on Microsoft's bad code quality. > They can't sue microsoft. They "accepted" a license that says Microsoft > isn't responsible . The old lady who microwav

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Trapped poisoned executable "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". > > We didn't get a single infected machine. The mail server stopped all > > of them. > >True. But you owe the awestruck audience an explanation of what happened > >to that attachme

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. On the > mail servers I run, I have installed some simple virus scanning software, > and it has, up to now, filtered out lots of incoming virii and trojans, as > well as a few

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
it would be worth it, and in others it would not be worth it. >Generally if a person needs antivirus protection for a machine, they really >need it for more than email that isn't encrypted. The right place to run it >is on their machine, not on the central mail server. The issue

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:42:25PM -0600, "John W. Lemons III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is true enough, but if the virus can be stopped some of the time before > it even reaches the end user, why not? > Because there are costs in doing so. Generally

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S . Socha
Quoting John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >True. But you owe the awestruck audience an explanation of what happened > >to that attachment. Anomy is cool, but ... ;-) > > It was sent to a holding directory and a messages was sent to the admin > account alerting him of the incident. In thi

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Lipscomb, Al
> * Lipscomb, Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I find it astonishing that people don't sue Microsoft for this. A > >> whole industry thrives on Microsoft's bad code quality. > >> > > > Be careful what you wish for. Once the lawsuits start the > Open Source > > world is getting deeper poc

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
> Sanitizing MIME attachment headers in "I love you" from > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to xx msgid= > Trapped poisoned executable "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". > We didn't get a single infected machine. The mail server stopped all > of them. >True. But you owe the awestruck audience an explanat

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Lipscomb, Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I find it astonishing that people don't sue Microsoft for this. A >> whole industry thrives on Microsoft's bad code quality. >> > Be careful what you wish for. Once the lawsuits start the Open Source > world is getting deeper pockets and therefore b

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>wrong. You pretend to provide security, but in reality you still allow >your clients to behave stupid and catch a virus. >If that happened on an important machine - with >valuable data - they shouldn't be allowed to do so, instead they >should be fired, possibly together with the user. >A virus m

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* John W Lemons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Remeber ILOVEYOU? No virus scanner on earth would have prevented >> that. > Sanitizing MIME attachment headers in "I love you" from > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to xx msgid= > Trapped poisoned executable "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". > We didn't ge

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:22:43PM -0600, John W. Lemons III wrote: > >Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving > >them access to non-solutions like virus scanners. > > I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. me too. > On the > mail

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: > I find it astonishing that people don't sue Microsoft for this. > A whole industry thrives on Microsoft's bad code quality. They can't sue microsoft. They "accepted" a license that says Microsoft isn't responsible . --Adam --

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Lipscomb, Al
> > As long as people run Windows, there will be a virus and > trojan problem. > And Unix is immune to Trojans and worms? With attacks getting more sophisticated I can see a day when an email would arrive and the MUA would be attacked via a buffer overflow in the header, use a local host exp

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
>Remeber ILOVEYOU? No virus scanner on earth would have prevented that. Sanitizing MIME attachment headers in "I love you" from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to xx msgid= Trapped poisoned executable "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". We didn't get a single infected machine. The mail server stopped al

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
g an ever stronger foothold in the server market. The next big thing will be "thin clients" or WebTV or whatever - client/server in any case. There *will* be choice. > The man askes for an antivirus softwere, not for compare between OSes. The man is perpetuating a problem, not trying

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread John W. Lemons III
in any previous version of windows that I have ever used, where plug-n-pray was the rule) > The problem is not the OS security - most of the times there is no > choise. The man askes for an antivirus softwere, not for compare > between OSes. >Everyone has hundreds of options, but the

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
s, F1 and plug'n'play. Buttons and F1 they can have on all platforms, plug and play has never been farther away from reality as on Windows. > The problem is not the OS security - most of the times there is no > choise. The man askes for an antivirus softwere, not for compare > b

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Milen Petrinski
users" want buttons, F1 and plug'n'play. The problem is not the OS security - most of the times there is no choise. The man askes for an antivirus softwere, not for compare between OSes.

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been thinking of a scheme in which attachments of certain > "dangerous" types get mangled, such that the filenames or types > are intentionally misdeclared. So the user ends up with a plain > base64 text file, which is meaningless, but whic

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been thinking of a scheme in which attachments of certain > "dangerous" types get mangled, such that the filenames or types are > intentionally misdeclared. So the user ends up with a plain base64 > text file, which is meaningless, but which he can triviall

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-03 Thread
Matt Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > If running a virus scanner would be free (i.e. does not reduce security, : > does not eat up CPU time on the email server, does not use memory, does : > not cost time and money to maintain) then I would not

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Al Lipscomb
> > 2) The actual virus code may be hidden inside a wide number of > packaging schemes; different mime encodings, compression formats, > encryption formats, etc. It is impossible for a virus scanner to be > able to read them all. Thus some known viruses can slip by because > they're inside an u

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Brown
e. All that is possible is that the cost is less than the benefits. > But virus scanners are a marketing vehicle for a whole industry that > did nothing to prevent any virus I have ever seen anyone close to me me > have. I used to work for an antivirus company (no longer; figured there

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread cfm
gainst it. Antivirus, not **antigravity**. ;^> -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content management

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Matt Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Therefore, signature based scanners CANNOT be a 100% reliable method > for preventing viruses. Plus, they are a security risk in themselves. And, they normally even cost money. > Felix, you seem to be of the opinion that anything less than 100% > effe

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Brown
Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Signature based detection can never catch current virii. Either s/current/new/ or s/catch/reliably catch/ There can be no argument that a signature based virus scanner can catch SOME viruses. The question is how reliably. The two issues are:

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Lipscomb, Al
>> > Don't know if this is a urban legend or if it really exists, but a > friend told me about a ZIP file called 42.ZIP (maybe because it is > 42 KB in size) which - as I heard - is currently floating around. This > is not a virus but a DoS attack against virus scanners. > > If you unzip this

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:24:03PM -0500, Jerry Keene wrote: > very useful for filtering out e-mail viruses Don't know if this is a urban legend or if it really exists, but a friend told me about a ZIP file called 42.ZIP (maybe because it is 42 KB in size) which - as I heard - is currently floa

RE: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Lipscomb, Al
> Like Felix I'm skeptical about the value of general > anti-virii programs > running as gatekeepers on Linux servers. > Check out http://www.vmyths.com A lot of the most "deadly" attacks could have been stopped dead with simple processes that looked for methods and not specific "signatures".

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Jerry Keene ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Like Felix I'm skeptical about the value of general anti-virii programs > running as gatekeepers on Linux servers. Please email yourself an email with http://www.fefe.de/antivirus/42.zip as attachment. Either your antivirus is thorough

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Jerry Keene
ake Visar Emini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have qmail & vpopmail running on Linux machine and I was thinking > > on installing an antivirus on my mailserver, does anyone have any > > suggestions about this issue?! > > Forget it. > Anti virii don't wo

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Visar Emini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have qmail & vpopmail running on Linux machine and I was thinking on > installing an antivirus on my mailserver, does anyone have any suggestions > about this issue?! Forget it. Anti virii don't work. They also introduce new

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Visar Emini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have qmail & vpopmail running on Linux machine and I was thinking > on installing an antivirus on my mailserver, does anyone have any > suggestions about this issue?! http://qmail.org/ - how many seconds did you search the arc

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Eric Garff
Visar Emini wrote: > Hi everybody... > > I have qmail & vpopmail running on Linux machine and I was thinking on > installing an antivirus on my mailserver, does anyone have any suggestions > about this issue?! > > Thanks for your time > > V. Before you get

AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Visar Emini
Hi everybody... I have qmail & vpopmail running on Linux machine and I was thinking on installing an antivirus on my mailserver, does anyone have any suggestions about this issue?! Thanks for your time V.

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-11-02 Thread Martin Lesser
"Olivier M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unfortunately avp is not free, the license-fee for a (linux) > > mail-server is about 100$/year. > > this would be acceptable. Are the updates automatic, or do they > have to be done manualy ? (wget something, for example). How should the updates be

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-11-01 Thread Olivier M.
Thanks Martin for your answer. On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:47:33AM +0200, Martin Lesser wrote: > Your problems seem to result of a perhaps misconfigured AvpLinux or > AvpDaemon. If you use the trial-version of avp you may run into problems > due to the "semi"-automatic tests done by avp. > > Unfo

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-09-25 Thread Martin Lesser
Rainer Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use AvpDaemon and it works very well after a little patch of > > sub-avp.pl > Martin, you should send it to Jason :) Done - some weeks ago :-) The patch concerned the behaviour of AvpDaemon, not AvpLinux. > > Your problems seem to result of a perhap

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-09-25 Thread Rainer Link
ation, please feel free to contact me :-) cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Link | Member of Virus Help Munich (www.vhm.haitec.de) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (amavis.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Founder of Linux AntiVirus Project (lavp.sourceforge.net)

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-09-25 Thread Martin Lesser
"Olivier M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just tried to use it with AVP and sweep : both returns a >X-Qmail-Scanner-0.90: corrupt scanner/resource problems - exit status 256 > in the logfile... > > If you are using qmail-scanner, could you please tell me which > program is working well, an

qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-09-24 Thread Olivier M.
Hello, I'm currently trying to install qmail-scanner (antivirus) on a server: basic installation seems to work well. Now I need a virus scanner : on the homepage <http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/> the following are listed: * Trend's Virus scanner * Sophos's

Re: AVP AntiVirus

2000-06-19 Thread Martin Lesser
Luis Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone uses AVP antivirus? Yep - it scans eMail on several qmail-servers I installed by using http://www.amavis.org with the patch by Rainer Link. > if yes, could you help me to install this software? What's your problem?

Re: AVP AntiVirus

2000-06-19 Thread Rainer Link
Luis Bezerra wrote: Hello! > Has anyone uses AVP antivirus? I'm using AVP/Linux, yes > if yes, could you help me to install this software? What's your problem? Why don't you ask the support guys from KasperskyLabs? best regards, Rainer Link -- Rainer Link | Member

qmail+antivirus

2000-06-19 Thread Luis Bezerra
Hello averyone: In this list, Exists anyone that uses qmail server with 5 mailboxes and Antivirus? Thanks in advance Luis

AVP AntiVirus

2000-06-19 Thread Luis Bezerra
Hello averyone: Has anyone uses AVP antivirus? if yes, could you help me to install this software? regards Luis Bezerra

Re: AntiVirus packages.

2000-04-30 Thread Rainer Link
Anton Pirnat wrote: > There are different ways to do so.. have a look at > http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html Please use either AMaViS-0.2.0-pre6-clm-rl-8 or AMaViS-Perl-5, which can be found at http://www.unixzone.com/virus/ HTH best regards, Rainer Link (Member of AMaViS Dev

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