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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:12:14 -0400, Purcell, Joey [Contractor]
<purcellj@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
> I work for the US Navy developing systems for them.

IIRC, the Navy is big on the Secure Computing "Sidewinder" firewall, a
BSD variant. If you are just looking to scan network traffic (SMTP,
FTP, HTTP), you might see if you can leverage an existing firewall to
scan your traffic?

Program such as F-Prot and ClamAV are designed only for scanning files
on disk (local or remotely mounted), but can be leveraged to scan
email messages as they are temporarily queued on disk. I am not
aware of any AV software for OpenBSD which will scan network traffic
in general , nor which can be hooked into FTP or HTTP proxies to scan
traffic in these specific protocols.


> I would like to have any input you can provide
> as to what the best antivirus software is available for OpenBSD. I have
> been researching F-Prot but I would like some professional input.

What is "best" depends on your budget and what you are trying to
protect against.

Given that almost every virus targets Microsoft Windows exclusively,
if your OpenBSD system is not expected to be used as a fileserver or
email gateway for WIndows clients, then you don't really need
antivirus...

If you just need to fulfill a gov't regulation which requires AV on
all systems, but don't actually expect virus data to be a threat, then
any AV which is acceptable under the policy is "good enough".


> Please keep in mind I will have to manually update the software. It will not
> have a connection to the outside world.

To my knowledge, all AV software can be manually updated, assuming
you find a machine that does have Internet connectivity to download
the latest signatures from the vendor, and copy the file to removable
media.

Kevin