[H-GEN] antivirus and squid recommendations?

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:08:31AM +1000, Peter Arnold wrote:
> Does anyone have any recomendations for virus scanning webtraffic on a
> running squid 2.5 on RH7.2?

It's a non-trival task for many reasons. Ultimately it's much better
to install a good quality virus scanner on the desktop you're browsing
from.

> I have a cowboy here who says "just install inoculate, it's got a linux
> version". I've yet to look into it but I doubt it filters traffic going
> through the proxy.

There are some products that do, but they're of fairly dubious
quality. The most they'll stop are rogue java applets or small
uncompressed files. Anything large, forget it.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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