Linux antivirus gateway

[Mike Reinehr]

On Monday 02 May 2005 11:39 pm, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for information about setting up a Linux box that acts as a
> antivirus gateway -- i.e. scans and cleans viruses at the network edge
> before it has had a chance to infect computers within the network. So
> far, a Google search turned up BitDefender and ClamAV.
>
> Unfortunately I only have a old Sun Netra T1 box available to install
> Linux and the AV firewall package on. I had to jump through many, many
> hoops just to get Aurora Linux installed (because of the unique
> architecture of the Netra T1), and I don't want to have to do the same
> for BitDefender, which runs Debian (does Debian have a Sparc-based
> distribution?).

	Yes! http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/

> As for ClamAV, I thought that this is for Sendmail scanning only. Am I
> correct? Or can it scan traffic that is entering the network too?
>
> Any help would be deeply appreciated!

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