On the subject of receiving mail and viruses

[Gregory Nowak]

I went to http://www.grisoft.com as Raul suggested the other day, and I think there was a antivirus program for GNU/Linux free for personal use.
Greg


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:03:07PM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> Sounds like a good package.  Know of any freely available virus scanning
> engines?  Bc this may be a partial solution to the HTML suppression problem.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "'Georgina'" <gena at gena-j.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:45 PM
> Subject: On the subject of receiving mail and viruses
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I thought that some of you might be interested in this package:
> >
> > Package: mailscanner
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: mail
> > Installed-Size: 560
> > Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
> > Architecture: all
> > Version: 3.13.2-2
> > Depends: exim | exim-tls | sendmail, tnef (>= 1.1.1), perl (>= 5.6.1),
> libio-stringy-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libmailtools-perl, libmime-perl,
> spamassassin (>= 2.11), libmail-audit-perl, unzip, ncftp | wget
> > Suggests: f-prot-installer
> > Filename: pool/main/m/mailscanner/mailscanner_3.13.2-2_all.deb
> > Size: 120102
> > MD5sum: 1ec06ce5abb9e19a55357d0c2115fe0b
> > Description: An email virus scanner and spam tagger.
> >  MailScanner is a freely distributable E-Mail gateway virus scanner
> >  and spam detector. It uses sendmail or Exim as its basis, and a choice of
> >  7 commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning.
> >  It can decode and scan attachments intended solely for Microsoft Outlook
> >  users (MS-TNEF). If possible, it will disinfect infected documents and
> >  deliver them automatically. It also has features which protect it against
> >  Denial Of Service attacks.
> >  .
> >  Virus checking is disabled by default, spam checking is enabled by
> default.
> >  After installation, you can enable virus checking, write your own virus
> >  scanner or install one of the supported commercial anti-virus packages.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gena
> >
> > Have your say:
> > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> >
> > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see
> > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >
> > Personal Contact Details:
> > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465
> >
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