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HOWTO create a transparant pop3 proxy to scan virusses for gateway and desktop. |
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Chapter Introduction and Contents |
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This hint is about creating a transparant pop3 proxy. This is done with:
. iptables
for redirecting pop3 traffic to the port of the transparant proxy. Iptables is the tool to do that.
Link to the website:
http://www.netfilter.org
. p3scan
is the actual proxy. Intercepts the pop3 traffic, and takes over the downloading of the emails, feeds them
to the virusscanner, and -if no virus is found - gives it back to the host which was requesting the email in the first place
Look here for the website:
http://p3scan.sourceforge.net
. clamav
an open source virusscanner.
Link to the website:
http://www.clamav.net
There are different configurations possible. Important questions what configuation to choose are:
. do I want scanning for a whole network or just one host?
. if you want to scan the pop3 traffic of a network, is it possible to install p3scan on the gateway?
. if this is not the case, is another server available you can install p3scan on?
In the first section I describe some configurations. The second one is about installation of p3scan.
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