[Mimedefang] Fwd: SecurityFocus Newsletter #146

[Michael D. Sofka]

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.

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