Re: Antivirus on a free UN*X (Linux/*BSD) platform

[Grzegorz Czaplinski <G.Czaplinski () prioris mini pw edu pl>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:35:35PM +0100, Meco wrote:
> I know there are solution to do an antivirus scan on smtp server.
> So it would be possible to put an smtp server that is configured to 
> check all the email for virus, ask the user to use it as the smtp 
> server, and configure the corporate mail system to use the 
> smtp/antivirus servervices.
>
> But I would like to do it in a _transparent_ way, because:
>    1) The mail system in not in house (it is outsourced). I don't want 
> to change this, because we don't have a big IT staff, and don't have 
> time to do system administration a mail system.
>    2) People in my company are permitted to use their home/email (and I 
> don't want to change this policy), with their po3/imap/smtp services, 
> where they receive     personal email & virus. :(
>
> I want a TRANSPARENT antivirus check.
> I want to permit user to use their usual pop3/imap/smtp server, and 
> check their mail for virus in a TRANPARENT way.
> I want the firewall / antivirus to decode the mail application protocol 
> (at minimum smtp, pop3), find attachment in email, and do an antivirus 
> check on them.
> This kind of stuff can be done with a lot of TRANPARENT http proxy 
> server (M$ ISA, Squid, etc), how can it be done with SMTP?
>
> Best Regards,
>                        Meco
> PS
> Sorry for the poor English, but it is not my naive language.

Hello Meco,

Have a look at:
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200212/sophos-amavis.html

Cheers,
        gregory
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