virus scanner for nntp protocol or better scan articles

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Dieter Bloms wrote:

> I want to make a virusscan on all news, but can't find any virusscanner
> for the nntp protocol.
> Does anybody know a virusscanner for the nntp protocol ?

Perhaps one exists somewhere, but none is widely used.

However, INN has a very powerful filtering infrastructure (see the files
"doc/hook-perl" and "doc/hook-python"), so you should be hook your usual
virus scanner up that way without too much trouble.

If you need virus scanning, I would recommend using the filtering option.


> If not, what's about scanning the articles in the spool directory (do I
> have to use the tradspool format and what happens if the virusscanner
> deletes some article ?)

If you delete articles, it will be just as if you expired them normally.  
But you would have to use tradspool or timecaf for that purpose, and of 
course there will be a delay between when the article arrives and when it 
gets scanned, so this is probably not a reliable option.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org