RE: Silly Question Time

[Henry Sieff <hsieff () orthodon com>]

Agreed; mail relay is where I do my AV scanning (well, there and at
the IDS).

And no, I haven't actually SEEN CVP, nor do I recommend it really (for
other reasons, but yes, it being proprietary is simply the icing on
the anti-cake).

Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ark () eltex ru [mailto:ark () eltex ru]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 5:38 AM
> To: hsieff () orthodon com
> Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] Silly Question Time
>
>
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> nuqneH,
>
> Questionable. mail relay may be a better place for AV.
>
> CVP is not a way to go, anyways - have you seen the specification?
> Sources? All i could find is _binary_ library by checkpoint 
> for serveral
> OSes.
>
> Waiting for i-cap..
>
> Henry Sieff <hsieff () orthodon com> said :
>
> > Handling malicious code is actually part of the general purpose of
a
> > firewall; checking incoming data for a virus in email is not
> > significantly different from reverse proxying and checking the
http
> > requests coming in. Some AV vendors (Norton, for example) make
> > firewall AV components, although it only works with certain types
of
> > firewalls (I believe the fireall must support CVP, for example).
>
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