On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:24, Jim Maul wrote: > I noticed that qmail-scanner supports different types of decoders like tnef > and unzip and uudecode but are there any plans to support binhex? Its not > like i get many (any) binhex attachments but people seem to be freaking out > because the binhex tests from www.testvirus.org get through the servers. I > suppose it could be up to clamav (and other virus scanners) to support > binhex natively but since QS supports others i thought maybe it should > support binhex as well. Any ideas on this?
I've used that testvirus.org site. It's a good idea, but as you say, you read from it what you will. I am fairly happy with Qmail-Scanner at the moment. Issues to do with binhex/rar/etc are really an AV issue. If the AV you use via Qmail-Scanner doesn't catch RAR viruses, then why is Q-S to blame? Zip was an exception. Basically I put support for zip and tnef in there before thinking "where will this end?". As you can imagine, adding more and more components is only going to make Q-S slower, and if your primary objective for Q-S is to stop viruses, then your choice of AV is more important. OTOH I do treat Q-S as more of a "content filter" that happens to support AV, so it's certainly possible Q-S will grow in that area - if it can be done in a scalable way. Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
