From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 10: 2: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-217.knology.net [24.214.76.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662F937B407 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) id f6PH1G228313; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:01:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:01:15 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Stephen Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus scanning Message-ID: <20010725120115.A10409@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0400, Stephen Hovey wrote: > > I wrote a wedge into mail.local to filter (drop) infected emails - is > there any known place on the net where email viruses and their patterns > are listed/maintained? I just keep adding the ones I see come thru my > system, but it would be nice to have a more complete set. Was thinking along those lines last night. Am building inflex right now to see what it offers (/usr/ports/security/inflex/) and hints for malicious files. Years ago the best antivirus scanner for the Mac was the freeware Disinfectant. Would want any virus scanner to be able to scan for multiplatform baddies. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message