[H-GEN] antivirus and squid recommendations?

[Peter Arnold]

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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.

Hmmm yeah I suspected as much. I presume to be effective it would need to
do some sort of content/packet inspection and comparison against a large
and ever changing database of signitures. Not a trivial task by any means.
>
>> 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.

Do you have any names of such dubios products offhand?

>
> --
> David Jericho
> Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd
>
>
> --
> Scanned and found clear of viruses by EntireScan.
> http://www.entirescan.com/
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