At 11:32 PM 21/09/96 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Andy Watts wrote:
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>> I know the next version of Firewall-1 will have a built in virus scanner
>> as
>> well as a mail proxy. Placing everything at the gateway. I'm not
>> convinced this is a good idea.
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>I'm not really convinced about putting all the antivirus eggs in this
>particular basket, anyway. Checking at your Internet gateway or thereabouts
>inevitably introduces an overhead and can't detect boot sector infectors,
>which still account for more common virus incidents than anything else
>(though the Concept and Wazzu macro viruses are, apparently, now the
>two most common viruses reported). Since you have to protect the desktop
>anyway.....
>
>Do you happen to know where Checkpoint are getting their scanning
>technology from?
Yes - from Cheyenne. It is their Inoculan product.
Rael Kuperholz
Integration Design Pty Ltd
rael @
idesign .
com .
au
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