From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 4 12: 5:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.uninet.ee (ns.uninet.ee [194.204.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D201D37C1CB for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 12:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taavi@uninet.ee) Received: by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 666DB25815; Thu, 4 May 2000 21:05:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix) with SMTP id 61AE714A2D; Thu, 4 May 2000 21:05:37 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:05:37 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Matthew Dillon , Lloyd Rennie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU In-Reply-To: <002b01bfb5f7$568d17a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve. > lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was > launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. > If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that > were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea. Yes, I was talking about virus scanning on behalf of Windows users. Anyway, most files, emails, web pages are served or pass through unix (and quite often *BSD) systems. There seems to be program called AMAVIS (http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html), which can do some scanning. It probably needs some investigation and freebsd porting. best regards, taavi ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10 | fax: +372 6405151 Tallinn 10143, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message