other virus scanners

[David Atkin]

Would it be easy to make it use more than one virus scanner, and maybe run
them in parallel for each message?

For a belt-and-braces approach...

--
Dave Atkin, NonStop Networks Ltd
www.nonstop-networks.co.uk
Tel: 01904 425406



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: other virus scanners


> At 10:03 22/10/2001, you wrote:
> >How easy is it to get mailscanner to use other virus scanners?
> >We are thinking of using CA's inoculate.
> >Is there a script file I can manipulate?
>
> Everything to do with the scanner is in sweep.pl. Basically you need to
> 1) Work out all the command-line options needed
> 2) Write a little parser that pulls out the names of the infected files,
> along with the virus reports for them.
>
> There's code already in there for Sophos and Mcafee, so you should be able
> to copy what I've already written.
>
> If you get it working nicely, I would be grateful of the code to put in
the
> distribution. If you need a hand writing it, send me some output from
> inoculate and I'll show you what the regular expressions and code should
> look like.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>