Thanks, This information is very ussefull for me too. What about for an
antivirus on the server? do yo have any experiencie with it?

TX.

2016-03-09 21:22 GMT+01:00 Wei-min Lee <weimin.b....@gmail.com>:

> Using ICAP is a good way to go so that the person uploading files can be
> notified of upload fails due to the virus scan.  Relying on filesystem
> virus scans lacks visibility of quarantined/rejected files.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Wei-min Lee <weimin.b....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You could use clamav via ICAP with squid transparently in front of apache.
>>
>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/ContentAdaptation/C-ICAP
>> http://squidclamav.darold.net/config.html
>>
>> http://louwrentius.com/setting-up-a-squid-proxy-with-clamav-anti-virus-using-c-icap.html
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Aurélien Terrestris <
>> aterrest...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On a large scale prod (200 000 users/day), I was using proxies working
>>> with antivirus through ICAP protocol (RFC 3507). The results were pretty
>>> good.
>>> I am not sure we could use this technology with Apache, and ICAP seems a
>>> bit old now.
>>>
>>> 2016-03-09 16:45 GMT+01:00 Christopher Schultz <
>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
>>>
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> On 3/9/16 10:21 AM, Rose, John B wrote:
>>>> > What about if your web sites allow for uploading files? Would you not
>>>> want
>>>> > to scan those on upload before they got on your filesystem?
>>>>
>>>> Sure, it would be nice to have the file scanned during upload, but I'm
>>>> guessing that the AV can't give an opinion on a file until it's been
>>>> completely-uploaded. In that case, do you really want to buffer the
>>>> whole file in memory to scan it?
>>>>
>>>> I think the file is going to make it -- at least in part -- to the disk
>>>> either way, unless you have other controls in place such as upload-size
>>>> limits where you can make a good bet that in-memory scanning can be done
>>>> without bringing-down your server.
>>>>
>>>> Anyhow, I don't have any particular experience with mod_clamav or
>>>> anything like that. Certainly I wouldn't rely upon it solely, since
>>>> there are other ways files can make it onto your server(s). But it
>>>> probably couldn't hurt.
>>>>
>>>> Things I'd be worried about are which requests will be scanned by the
>>>> AV? Will every single GET/POST/etc. be scanned? That might cause a
>>>> significant impact on your response times. Also, the aforementioned
>>>> buffering -- does the file have to remain in memory to be scanned, or
>>>> will it be streamed to a disk somewhere first? You don't want AV-scans
>>>> to bust your memory cap.
>>>>
>>>> -chris
>>>>
>>>> > On 3/9/16 9:49 AM, "Christopher Schultz" <
>>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> John,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 3/8/16 6:02 PM, Rose, John B wrote:
>>>> >>> I am interested in both
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thanks
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Christopher Schultz
>>>> >>>> <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>> John
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>>> On 3/8/16 2:43 PM, Rose, John B wrote:
>>>> >>>>>> Looking for comments on mod_clamav, and any other alternative
>>>> >>>>>> antivirus software for Apache on linux
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Are you trying to protect your clients or your servers?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I would imagine that running any AV software that monitors the
>>>> >> filesystem for changes would be sufficient. Why do you think you
>>>> need an
>>>> >> httpd module for this?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> -chris
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