Re: virus scanning by squid?

Congratulations to all those, that see no benefits in virus-scanner
supported by squid.
You must belong to seldom race, of people not seeing that binaries
and Word-Macros can be transferred via WWW and FTP.

So my real question: Is there anything new ongoing?
Has anyone already tried to implement the McAfee-Engine into Squid?

Thank you for any reply,
Wolfgang.

> This would be great if we could do this! Mcafee's engine already runs
> on Linux and other Unix's. I use it at work with a Samba server.
>
> "Support" yammers:
> > I think it is a very good idea to provide such a service.
> >
> > The way to do it may be to scan for virus if the file matches entries in a
> > list. For example, if the file (or object) name is *.exe, scan the file
> > after getting it. If a virus is found, send out a warning html page and
> > let the user to choose whether to get the file or not.
> >
> > This service shall give the user one more reason to use the proxy.
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Received on Mon Mar 10 1997 - 07:05:36 MST