[Mimedefang] File::Scan
Rich West
Rich.West at divatv.com
Sat Apr 6 21:13:16 EST 2002
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>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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