RE: [squid-users] squid and anti-virus

Hi John,

Are you using the Interscan WebProtect with ICAP? Or you are putting the
scan engine in front of Squid?

I have tried the Symantec Scan Engine, but somehow it does not work very
well with Squid 2.5S4 & Icap... :(

Rgds,
Wei Keong

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ward, John (I&DBM) wrote:

> Hi Jacques,
>
> There is a way to use the trend micro product in front of the squid. Its not elegant, but it does solve one or two problems.
> things to note:
> 1) if you chain the devices, you will break your ability to use delay pools ( nice for QOS, ask Raymond C ;)
> 2) the trend product runs on linux and we've had it here for a while, but the interface is not very intuitive when it comes to seeing which scanner
> engine/pattern you have
>
> 99.992% of the time it does work well w.r.t removing the virus payload.
>
> John
>
> PS: now might be a good time to beg for CVP / ICAP in squid ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jacques.van.der.merwe [mailto:scarab@transwitch.co.za]
> Sent: 01 October 2003 09:11
> To: Squid Users
> Subject: [squid-users] squid and anti-virus
>
>
> greetings all,
>
> has anybody successfully intergrated content scanning (anti virus) and squid? i'm getting uphill from our AV guys about no content scanning at our
> proxy before data arrives at the desktops. i know of MS products floating about that do this, but i'd hate to deploy an MS product within my pure
> Linux environment.
>
> any takers?
>
>
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Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 20:41:42 MDT