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Content scanning via CVP
From: chuck yerkes <fwwiz () yerkes com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:52:43 -0700
Hi, Checkpoint and (I think) semantec have come out with a "standard" (at least the API has been published) called Content Vectoring Protocol (CVP). The idea is that a firewall can take some content and pass it (via CVP) to some server that looks for viruses and what not. Now, I've been a longtime advocate that Virus scanning should be done on the target machine just before it's executed - that it's possible to wrap things in such a way that it will get through. The most obvious being an encrypted message of any kind (pgp or rot13). Nonetheless, this Melissa Worm thing has made many managers say that contents should be checked at the firewall. - Does anyone have any hard/fast information on CVP? - Has anyone used it in a non-canned form (eg written something that talks to a server)? Thoughts? Comments? chuck
Current thread:
- Content scanning via CVP chuck yerkes (May 06)
- Re: Content scanning via CVP joewee (May 07)
- Re: Content scanning via CVP chuck yerkes (May 07)
- Re: Content scanning via CVP Adam Shostack (May 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Content scanning via CVP ark (May 07)
- Re: Content scanning via CVP joewee (May 07)