Re: deploying ClamAV with Snort IDS

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

On 02/02/2010 06:46 AM, Will Metcalf wrote:
> If you are interested in stopping viruses in http/ftp traffic with
> ClamAV I suggest you have a look at HAVP.  They do this better than we
> did, the problem being that ClamAV expects a file so unless you do
> some serious work writing protocol dissectors to hand it something in
> a format it expects, most of the time it will only find viruses in
> protocols where the file starts at the beginning of the payload i.e.
> (no application headers present).  We add some rudimentary support for
> http but HAVP is way more robust.

havp is great. If you have squid inline (ie the squid server is the
router) or transparently inline (ie you configure your default route to
redirect port 80 traffic to your proxy) then it equates to inline snort
+ AV for HTTP. (btw, havp does NOT support FTP - nor HTTPS - but the
latter should be obvious). Also, it supports many AVs - not just clamAV


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Cheers

Jason Haar
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