Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:07:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Joshua Lewis <jmlewis@dslextreme.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network AV server Message-ID: <20050608100605.X60748@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <39e40a46f8ca2a4e0a3f2dca.20050608093038.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <39e40a46f8ca2a4e0a3f2dca.20050608093038.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
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> Could someone point me in the right direction to create a network server > that scans networks systems for Virus and acts on the viruses accordingly. > > I have a FreeBSD system that I would like to turn into a virus scanner > (among other things) but I don't know how or what scanners are available > and/or recommended. http://clamav.net/ A GPL virus scanner featuring: * command-line scanner * fast, multi-threaded daemon * milter interface for sendmail * database updater with support for digital signatures * virus scanner C library * on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD) * detection of over 35000 viruses, worms and trojans * built-in support for RAR (2.0), Zip, Gzip, Bzip2, Tar, MS OLE2, MS Cabinet files, MS CHM (Compressed HTML), MS SZDD * built-in support for mbox, Maildir and raw mail files * built-in support for Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, and Petite Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .
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