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Re: Another new worm???
From: mwshaffer () YAHOO COM (Michael W. Shaffer)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:09:04 -0700
I've held a variety of coding and admin positions in the last decade, and just recently I've taken a new position as hostmaster/postmaster for a moderately sized divisional network. I am evaluating a variety of antivirus and content filtering products, but while perusing dozens of informational, research, and link sites concerned with viruses I have not found even one link to any sort of open source scanning engine project. There are a number of things (AMaViS, et.al.) that claim to be 'free virus scanners', but they all seem to amount to nothing more than wrapper scripts that rely on one or more commercial scanning engines to do their work. It seems to me that there is a great opportunity for development of an actual open source scan engine and a companion signature/pattern database. I would think there would be considerable benefit to the sysadmin/research/development communities concerned with virus prevention if some sort of central forum for collecting, validating, and disseminating useful virus information and samples could be established. I guess I'm thinking of a 'Maps RBL' for viruses. Are you aware of any projects that are addressing this issue at present, or do you think there is a useful place in the community for someone to throw up a site and start trying to hack something together? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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