From: Chris Higgins
Date: Wed 27 Jun 2001 - 00:29:10 IST
> Gary is right,
>
> I am talking about something that would effectively scan traffic through the
> firewall - not just emails. I had little hope of getting something for the
> masquerading traffic, however I'm optimistic about there being something out
> there which will scan the proxy traffic. If I could get something that
> would just watch the squid cache folders that would probably (at a pinch)
> do.
http://viralator.loddington.com
"
This is the third release of Viralator to the public.
Over 1500 downloads of viralator since March 21 2001
It is a perl script that virus scans http downloads on a linux
server after passing through the squid proxy server.
"
>
> Dermot.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ilug-admin at domain linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at domain linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> > Ruairi Newman
> > Sent: 26 June 2001 8:57 pm
> > To: Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T
> > Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
> > Subject: Re: [ILUG] Virus Scanner for firewalls
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if this is the question the original poster asked
> > though...!
> > > He seems to be looking for something that will scan all packets coming
> > > through a firewall for virii, not just emails themselves.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm. Well, in that case I doubt very much that it is possible. AFAIK,
> > virus scanners only work on files, applications etc, in which case the
> > firewall would have to identify and assemble incoming files, and
> > then scan
> > for virii. This isn't the job of a firewall.
> >
> > It might be possible on a proxy, if the purpose of this is to
> > scan web/ftp
> > downloads for virii, though.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ruairi
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
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