Re: [squid-users] Squid and Virus Screening

Hi,
Do you know Dansguardian. It is an open source content filtering, there is
patch makes it virus check the files that go through it.take a look at
these sites:

http://www.pcxperience.org/dgvirus/
http://www.dansguardian.org/

Alireza

> Hi all.
>
> I have a question which I cannot seem to answer. I have searched google,
> but
> obviously for the wrong things.
>
> The question I have is is it possible to screen or scan all files
> downloaded
> (main extensions such as zip/rar/bzip2/gz/tar/exe) for viruses while they
> are being downloaded (transparent to the user)? And if so, how could one
> do
> it? I suppose you could use a wrapper but am not sure exactly how to do
> that.
>
> I understand that this will have considerable resource impacts on the
> server
> itself, specially if the internet is used (and abused), but I would like
> to
> implement something like that.
>
> Please let me know if anyone has any ideas, or knows of some documents
> that
> I could read. Been thinking of using something like squidGuard source and
> just change the code to redirect all extensions like exe and so on to
> clamdscan.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Douglas Lane
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 07:02:26 MDT