[Mimedefang] File::Scan

Rich West Rich.West at divatv.com
Sat Apr 6 21:13:16 EST 2002


>
>
>I went and got a copy after reading your message.
>
>It seems to be pretty fast, actually.  I'd expect that integrating it 
>with MIMEDefang would be pretty easy, too, and one could avoid the 
>overhead of starting another process.  
>

That was what I was thinking when I originally saw it, specifically 
because it is not another process.. it is a perl module.

>I'm curious as to how well they can keep up to date with current 
>viruses, though.  A simple check over a month's worth of MIMEDefang 
>quarantined "virus archives" resulted in a Hybris variant being 
>missed.
>
>I'm a little hesitant to trust it yet.
>

That was also my concern.. However, I would guess that File::Scan would 
be better than using nothing at all.

-Rich


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