ANNOUNCE: 4.34.7 -- Re: customer written A-V engine

[Julian Field]

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At 12:08 28/09/2004, you wrote:
>A number of Perl scripts are now available which _will_ detect the
>exploit, or at least the example we have. How can we use these scripts
>in MailScanner?
>
>One suggestion made by a colleague here is for you to provide an
>interface in MS to a GENERIC anti-virus engine. Your MS interface would
>specify the strings/codes to be returned by this engine and the method
>of return.
>
>You would publish details of this interface. As far as MS is concerned
>it would be just another A-V engine that it can use.
>
>Sites could then write their own Perl script that conform to this
>interface and have the script used by MS by adding the "GENERIC" engine
>to the list in "MailScanner.conf" of the A-V engines to be used by
>MailScanner.

Please download and use beta release 4.34.7 which I have just released.
This contains the "generic" engine you need.

Please let me know how you get on with it. The output spec of what I
require from your code is in generic-wrapper. That seemed a good place to
put it as you would have to edit that file at some point to use it.
--
Julian Field
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