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Hi!

We have a university network here and lots of problems with infected files
downloaded from websites. We have licenses for anti-virus software
(sophos), and now I wonder if there are any experiences in using such
filters together with a proxy (e.g. squid) to clean up the web traffic. I
don't want to filter the content by keywords, urls etc(!!), just no viruses
and trojans any more.. (currently all Microsoft-based machines are blocked
from the internet as we found no reasonable way to secure them).

Thank you, CU Lars.

dansguardian ( www.dansguardian.org ) does have an antivirus scanning plug
in written for it ( http://www.pcxperience.org/dgvirus/ ) however you would
need a virus checker which can run as a daemon otherwise it would need to be
launched for each file.

HTH

Lee

Many advanced firewalls can do it with anti-virus softwares which should run
as HTTP proxy. I am not sure whether Sophos can run a http proxy or not. But
there are some anti-virus softwares, such as
InterScan(http://www.itshield.com). ITShield Firewall
(http://www.itshield.com) can do it well with anti-virus softwares. It is a
software firewall. You can install it on PC.

Ida

Quote:> Hi!

> We have a university network here and lots of problems with infected files
> downloaded from websites. We have licenses for anti-virus software
> (sophos), and now I wonder if there are any experiences in using such
> filters together with a proxy (e.g. squid) to clean up the web traffic. I
> don't want to filter the content by keywords, urls etc(!!), just no
viruses
> and trojans any more.. (currently all Microsoft-based machines are blocked
> from the internet as we found no reasonable way to secure them).

> Thank you, CU Lars.