Re: Sophos and compat3x dependency

From: Jim Sills (jsills_at_g3llc.com)
Date: 04/24/04

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    Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:18:59 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
    To: Andy Wolf <andy.wolf@schwaben.de>
    
    

    Andy,

    I currently use Sophos on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE without any 3.x
    compatibility. I have been using it in this configuration for 5 months.
    I use MailScanner as the frontend that invokes sweep (Sophos) and
    also SpamAssassin. This setup has been fantastic for our company. I installed
    the httpupd script to update the IDE files (it runs from cron every 30
    minutes). We average about 25 viruses per day in the inbound email.

    To protect the desktop I installed the Sophos desktop scanners on 12
    Windows 2000 desktop. The updates to these are managed by Sophos
    Enterprise Manager on our NT 4.0 Exchange server, with the CID (central
    installation directory) located on the FreeBSD system.

    For our laptop users I install Sophos RemoteUpdate which pulls the
    updates from the Apahce webserver on the FreeBSD system (both in the
    office and on the road).

    Just before I emailed you I downloaded the latest version of sweep
    (Sophos) on a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system again without any 3.x stuff
    and scanned the /usr/local directory...success...

    Note: their product called MailMonitor which does not run on FreeBSD
    (works on Linux) and this is why the you have to use MailMonitor or AMaViS.

    If you want to discuss our experience with Sophos please email me:

    Jim Sills <jsills@g3llc.com>

    Below is the output of sweep -v

    %sweep -v
    SWEEP virus detection utility
    Copyright (c) 1989,2004 Sophos Plc, www.sophos.com

    System time 12:11:21, System date 24 April 2004

    Product version : 3.81
    Engine version : 2.19
    User interface version : 2.07.060
    Platform : FreeBSD/Intel
    Released : 03 May 2004
    Total viruses (with IDEs) : 89756

    -- 
    On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Andy Wolf wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > currently I am trying to install Sophos Anti Virus and found out that
    > these binaries require FreeBSD 3.x compatibility. Now the misc/compat3x
    > port ist marked FORBIDDEN because of two security vulnerabilities
    > (FreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath and FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr).
    >
    > Any idea how to proceed ? Contacting Sophos ? Waiting for a fixed
    > compat3x ? Using a different virus scanner software ?
    >
    > Thanks in advance...Andy
    >
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