can I use CentOS as a antivirus / spam filter / HTTP AV gateway?
 

Dear Rudi,

what software do you think using to do that operations?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rudi Ahlers" <Rudi@SoftDux.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@centos.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 4:23:59 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [CentOS] can I use CentOS as a antivirus / spam filter / HTTP AV gateway?

Hi all

I've been thinking about using CentOS on a Dell R200 server and turn it
into a firewall / network monitor / traffic shaper in our datacentre,
instead of using a dedicated firewall device.

One of the devices that I have been looking at, with my limited budget,
is the D-Link DFL 860 -
http://www.netdefend.eu/Product.aspx?m=15&ref=DFL-860

It provides AV, SPI, VPN, DOS, P2P, etc protection. Most of this can be
done with Linux as well, but I'm not 100% sure about the AV part.

How will I use / setup CentOS to check all traffic coming in & out
(HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, etc) for virusses and clean them? We host both
Windows & Linux servers, and I'm not too worried about the Linux
servers, but Windows needs a lot of extra protection.

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can I use CentOS as a antivirus / spam filter / HTTP AV gateway?
 

on 7-10-2008 3:23 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:

Johnny Hughes wrote:

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Hi all

I've been thinking about using CentOS on a Dell R200 server and turn
it into a firewall / network monitor / traffic shaper in our
datacentre, instead of using a dedicated firewall device.


One of the devices that I have been looking at, with my limited
budget, is the D-Link DFL 860 -
http://www.netdefend.eu/Product.aspx?m=15&ref=DFL-860


It provides AV, SPI, VPN, DOS, P2P, etc protection. Most of this can
be done with Linux as well, but I'm not 100% sure about the AV part.


How will I use / setup CentOS to check all traffic coming in & out
(HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, etc) for virusses and clean them? We host
both Windows & Linux servers, and I'm not too worried about the Linux
servers, but Windows needs a lot of extra protection.




ssshhh!!! Don't tell Trend Micro you are scanning for viruses at the
gateway ... they don't like that term :-D


http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2219926/breakthrough-trend-micro-patent-barracuda





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Are you saying I'm not allowed todo this, and will be violating a patent
right for building my own network level virus scanner / anti-virus gateway?


No... He is saying that Trend Micro won't like it, and will sue you for
millions of dollars and your first born child! ;-P



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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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