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


From: "Stephane Nasdrovisky" <stephane.nasdrovisky () uniway be>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:47:33 +0100



slightly off topic, is there any firewall besides checkpoint that uses
this 'industry standard' CVP? (last time I looked a couple years ago there
was not)

I don't known any firewall sucessfully using cvp, including checkpoint's fw-1.
CVP is a firewall-1 well known dos vulnerability known as nightmare. In one word:
marketing bullshit. My opinion is that smtp should be scanned at a mail relay
level (which most 'gateway' antivirus software do) and http/https should be
scanned at a proxy (which most 'gateway' antivirus software do).

going all the way back to the FWTK smap that puts the incoming main as a

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