Re: List maintainance ..

[Yann SECQ]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> > There isn't any free software to scan for viruses.
> > So we can't install a virus scanner.
> > What else would you have us do?


Hi, I saw this on Freshmeat : http://www.vanja.com/tools/


> Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti 

> virus vendor ( http://www.sophos.com ). On startup, Sophie 

> initializes SAVI (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 has been tested on Linux and Solaris (Sparc), and also compiles 

> on FreeBSD (not extensively tested). It was made as a part of 

> 'Virge' project, which is a mail/attachment/virus scanning tool 

> (and procmail replacement), written in C.

The tools are GPLed, but it can't find if this SAVI libs is freely 
usable. Perhaps it could be a solution for the last days of virus 
infection ?

Cheers, yann.

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