[Mimedefang] Fwd: SecurityFocus Newsletter #146

[Karel.DeBruyne at ua.ac.be]

I've installed it on a Sparc/Solaris machine and tried it without
problems. (you can download a 30-day trial version of the scanner from
Sophos)
Seems perfect and FAST!!!

However, I'm not sure how to integrate it in MIMEDefang, and I would like
to know how Sophos and the NAI uvscan compare to each other (% of found
virusses).

Karel

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michael D. Sofka wrote:

> In the "Speak of the devil" category.  I haven't tried this, but I will.
>
> Mike
>
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> 2. Sophie v1.35
> by Vanja Hrustic
> Relevant URL:
> http://www.vanja.com/tools/
> Platforms: FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, OpenBSD, POSIX
> Summary:
>
> Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti virus
> vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie initializes SAPI
> (Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus patterns into memory, opens
> local UNIX domain socket, and waits for someone to connect and instructs
> it which path to scan. Since the database is loaded in RAM, scanning is
> very fast. (Note: speed of scanning also depends on SAVI settings and size
> of the file.) It works on Linux, Solaris (Sparc/x86), HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
> It was made as a part of 'Virge' project, which is a mail/attachment/virus
> scanning tool, written in C.
>
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
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