RE: Silly Question Time

[Henry Sieff <hsieff () orthodon com>]

Handling malicious code is actually part of the general purpose of a
firewall; checking incoming data for a virus in email is not
significantly different from reverse proxying and checking the http
requests coming in. Some AV vendors (Norton, for example) make
firewall AV components, although it only works with certain types of
firewalls (I believe the fireall must support CVP, for example).

Wouldn't be unheard of, at all, but I currently don't do it.

Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyatt, Kenny, ITS [mailto:Kenny.Wyatt () jocoks com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: 'firewall-wizards () nfr net'
> Subject: [fw-wiz] Silly Question Time
>
>
> do you put antivirus s/w on the FW itself?
> i know nothing is processed, etc., etc. &
> i know about cvp, etc.
>
> the question is more of a 'is this done in the industry'?
>
> thanx (let the bashing begin :~)
> kennyw
>
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