Virus checkers

[Jim Kingdon]

> So, the question is: is there a way to setup a virus scanner running
> under Linux that can be linked in to SendMail/qmail/exim/whatever and
> that can identify Wintel viruses?

Yes!

Now let me find the URL where I saw this discussed. One moment
please.

Here we go:
http://lwn.net/1999/0701/security.phtml
scroll down to where it says "Linux needs to worry about viruses too"

There is a link to a GPL'd tool called AMaViS which hooks into
sendmail and can do the actual detection by calling one of the
commercial virus scanners (McAfee, Dr. Solomon, and a few others).

[The Flying Hamster]

On 20 Jul 1999 14:40:37 -0400, Jim Kingdon <kin...@panix.com> wrote:
>> So, the question is: is there a way to setup a virus scanner running
>> under Linux that can be linked in to SendMail/qmail/exim/whatever and
>> that can identify Wintel viruses?
>
>Yes!

What he said.

[...]

>There is a link to a GPL'd tool called AMaViS which hooks into
>sendmail and can do the actual detection by calling one of the
>commercial virus scanners (McAfee, Dr. Solomon, and a few others).

Though there is a root exploit in that atm.

Alternatively do what I did and homebrew something similar using bash,
exim and mcafee. Alan: I'll email separately tomorrow after I've
rounded up the bits demonstrating the code (no it's not perfect but
it's the first cut which I had to get working asap at the time).

Mark

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