[Samba] Re: VFS Virus Scanner idea...

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:40:04PM -0500, Aaron D. wrote:
> Chris;
> 
> I am not personally aware of any open source solutions for server based 
> virus protection and detection on LINUX...

I think that such a project would need Open Source anti-virus software in
order to be viable.  The AMaViS folk (http://www.amavis.org/) are able to
bypass licensing issues by running commercial software and then parsing
the results.  They do this for mail processing, however, not for active
read/write of files.  I don't know much about the Open AntiVirus Project
(http://www.openantivirus.org/) but that's probably the kind of thing that 
would be needed if it were going to be built-in to a VFS layer.

Chris -)-----

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