Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (224 mails)

[David Huecking <d.huecking@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

you could let "fetchmail" fetch the mail from the external (pop3) Server and 
let "amavis" check the incoming mail with f-prot. 
Than KMail can fetch the checked mail from the local postbox.
Or you could go even one step further and use a forwarding-only smpt-server on 
your local computer and let amavis also check your outgoing mail.
The f-prot for Linux packet includes also a script to check for and install 
new antivirus signature files from their ft-server.
The whole stuff sounds more complicated than it is on a modern SuSE Linux 
system; most things are available via yast...
(If you like, ask me for some concrete tips of installation on a German SuSE 
system via pm. I don't want to post the German names of settings-dialogues 
etc. on this english spoken list...)

On Sonntag, 16. Februar 2003 00:25, Michael Hoeller wrote:
> until now I don't scan my Linux only system for viruses, but since I get
> more and more MS Word Documents which I open with OpenOffice I fear that I
> get macro viruses, since OO convertes quite well. Do I need to be afraid of
> these viruses?
>
> With Windows I used in the past f-prot (www.fprot.org) to scan my system,
> this is now also availabel for linux. How is the experience with this
> program?
>
> I thought of installing the f-prot start command in KMail so that the Mail
> directory will be scanned when a Mail is received. I this a good idea or is
> thee a better solution for a dialin connecton?

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David Huecking.

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