[Mimedefang] Re: MIMEDefang survey...

[Kelson Vibber]

At 12:54 PM 10/28/2002, mimedefang-request at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote:
>1) Does anyone actually use MIMEDefang in non-multiplexor mode?  I want
>to drop support for this in mimedefang.c

Nope.

>2) Does anyone use OpenAntiVirus?  I want to drop support for it.

Yes, although only as a secondary to File::Scan.  OAV catches a few here 
and there, but that may just be because FS knows the 3 or 4 viruses that 
make up most of the traffic.

>I take no stand :-) on anti-virus products.  What I need is a way to
>detect OpenAV at "configure" time.  What's the name of the OpenAV
>daemon?  Where does it normally install itself?

IIRC it doesn't really have an installer, just a zip file you can place 
anywhere.  I'm using /usr/local/openantivirus, but I don't think there's a 
standard location.  I suppose you could search the /usr tree for 
ScannerDaemon.jar, but I'd guess the best way to detect it would be to 
connect to localhost:8127 and see if it responds, maybe with an option to 
configure that lets you specify the host and port to check.

Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications, Technical Staff
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