Re: Antivirus on SQUID

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 27/06/03 19:37 +0300, David Ziggy Lubowa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running Squid and would like to know some ways i can intergrate
> > Virus Scanning in the package. I am using RedHat 9.0 as the OS. I would
> > like to stop Virus's being transmitted onto our staff via HTML etc.
> >
> > If possible a free anti-virus :-)
>
> i think what you need is an AV on your mail server not on squid, try out
> Amavis on your mail server. Squid just does http requests on behalf of
> everything behind it unless you run a mail server on your squid server
> which is not a good idea.
<top posted quoting fixed>

Hmmm? I would say both HTTP and (E)SMTP traffic need to be filtered.
http://www.openantivirus.org/ has a squid plugin.
http://clamav.elektrapro.com/

Instead of amavis, I would recommend amavisd-new becuase it integrates
virus scanning and spam checking into a single scan, and it is high
performance, with a lot of flexibility.
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

Devdas Bhagat

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