I recently reopned my BBS, and I am running OS/2 Warp4. I wonder there are anyone who runs antivirus (that suits OS/2) scan for incoming files? If yes, can it be used for command line and are the latest update available?

Bjarte

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I recently reopned my BBS, and I am running OS/2 Warp4. I wonder there are anyone who runs antivirus (that suits OS/2) scan for incoming files? If yes, can it be used for command line and are the latest update available?

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean.

21 Mar 03 03:37, you wrote to Bjarte Boe:

I recently reopned my BBS, and I am running OS/2 Warp4. I wonder
there are anyone who runs antivirus (that suits OS/2) scan for
incoming files? If yes, can it be used for command line and are the
latest update available?

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

and it works well under linux aswell, i have a cron that updates the files 2 times a day, i use it for my mail scanner, and spam checking


Benny

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Following up a message from Benny Pedersen to Sean Dennis About OS/2 virus scan
in BBS:

I recently reopned my BBS, and I am running OS/2 Warp4. I wonder
there are anyone who runs antivirus (that suits OS/2) scan for
incoming files? If yes, can it be used for command line and are the
latest update available?

I would suggest Mcafee, you get the best of both worlds, a gui interface, and command line. I can ship you a copy via the internet if you want. I update mine every week. It also does LFN with ease.

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

and it works well under linux aswell, i have a cron that updates the
files 2 times a day, i use it for my mail scanner, and spam checking

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
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You might add that ..

I would suggest Mcafee, you get the best of both worlds, a gui
interface, and command line. I can ship you a copy
via the internet if you want. I update mine every
week. It also does LFN with ease.

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

NORMAN used in this manner is really pretty good. I have version 5.4.43 I guess it is now. If you don't work through the server version it is not so expensive. The Single User renewal for me is $80 USA for TWO years, which I just paid in. No, if you try this as a server deal in an .ORG or a .COM setting, they will want a lot more than that for the service. But as a single user front end filter, that's not too bad as I saw it.


Version 5.4 upward can be called as a command line operation and will proof whatever directory you ask of it from a batch file technique. I'm using it on my connect box to the IP service for my email at present in just such a command
line exit in Post Road Mailer. I use a three way exit scan to check first the raw accepted .POP, then the way it winds up as MIME and finally a third time as
it segregates out the attachments archives or whatever.

Other than being unable to handle an occaisional malformed archive, so far it has gotten everything that has come this way. I thing about thirty gibe.E incursions in the last two weeks alone.

They do have bugs on this or that. But they are working closely with me for what I've found and turned in. This whole virus issue is not at all as simple as some might conjecture.

Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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Replying to a message from Mike Luther 1:117/3001 to Gord Hannah,

About OS/2 virus scan in BBS, On Fri Apr 11 2003

I would suggest Mcafee, you get the best of both worlds, a gui

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

I used F-Prot as well and it was pretty good until I could not "easily find updates and their website became real confusing.

NORMAN used in this manner is really pretty good. I have version
5.4.43 I guess it is now. If you don't work through the server

I never tried NORMAN I have used McAfee pretty much exclusively for over a decade now, My DOS board scanned everything every day and all uploads.

version it is not so expensive. The Single User renewal for me is
$80 USA for TWO years, which I just paid in. No, if you try this as

I was lucky my OS/2 version of McAfee was free. And updates free.

They do have bugs on this or that. But they are working closely
with me for what I've found and turned in. This whole virus issue
is not at all as simple as some might conjecture.

I realize that as being Moderator Emeritus of VIRUS, VIRUS_INFO, and DIRTY_DOZEN, also my board at one time specialized in Anti Virus software and their updates. I recall the days when a .dat file was only 125k now it is over 2MB, with about 125 new virus' (virii) created every day, for simplicity sake I
lump trojan horse, worms, etc in one definition.

Another excellent package is AVP. www.avp.ru

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
-=Team OS/2=-
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Gord ..

Another excellent package is AVP. www.avp.ru

Interesting you should mention AVP. I have a suite of programs which is compiled under PowerBASIC 3.5 for DOS. AVP is totally unable, for some reason,
to keep from passing every single one of them into the quarantine bin every time they are accessed! I've Emailed the crew there for suggestions for help.
Not one Email has been answered. The good folks at PowerBASIC are totally floored as to why. Evidently something in my libraries that is necessary is thought to be evil by AVP, but we do not know what it is. The total number of lines of source code involved is over 1,400,000 lines of PB 3.5 Source including all the PBL's and whatever.

I'm totally at a loss to tell anyone as to what to do to get this cured with AVP, and nothing else that I've hit has this error...

Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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I would suggest Mcafee, you get the best of both worlds, a gui interface, and command line. I can ship you a copy via the internet if you want. I update mine every week. It also does LFN with ease.

Hmm.. Is OS/2 command line for McAfee still available? And is it suitable to THD ProScan?

Bjarte

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Replying to a message from Bjarte Boe 2:211/42 to Gord Hannah,

About OS/2 virus scan in BBS, On Mon Apr 14 2003

Hmm.. Is OS/2 command line for McAfee still available? And is it
suitable to THD ProScan?

I would assume so, if you want to try it out send me email I will ship it to you. Without .dat files.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
-=Team OS/2=-
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Hello, Gord.

On 14 Apr 03 at 08:02, Gord Hannah wrote to Bjarte Boe:

it to you. Without .dat files.

Are they even making .DAT files that will work with the OS/2 version?

Later,
Sean

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Replying to a message from Sean Dennis 1:11/200 to Gord Hannah,

About OS/2 virus scan in BBS, On Sat Apr 19 2003

it to you. Without .dat files.

Are they even making .DAT files that will work with the OS/2
version?

Yup I update every week.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers! Gord
-=Team OS/2=-
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Hello Mike.

<On 11Apr2003 18:39 Mike Luther (1:117/3001) wrote a message to Gord Hannah regarding OS/2 virus scan in BBS >

I'd recommend F-PROT. It's free and it runs under DOS, but it works wonderfully under OS/2. It's what I used when I ran my board under
OS/2.

NORMAN used in this manner is really pretty good. I have version
5.4.43 I guess it is now. If you don't work through the server
version it is not so expensive. The Single User renewal for me is
$80 USA for TWO years, which I just paid in. No, if you try this
as a server deal in an .ORG or a .COM setting, they will want a lot
more than that for the service. But as a single user front end
filter, that's not too bad as I saw it.

These folks were *not* at all friendly. They got wind that I was using mine to
protect my smtp server; they promptly demanded a $2k+ fee for the "revised" license. They were not in any way, shape or form willing to work with a not-for-profit, hobbiest organisation like FidoNet... They just wanted their $$, or stop using the product. I dropped it off the machine (much to the benefit of the machine which has not "black screen" crashed since I removed it and its hooks.

Very regrettable, inflexible corporate attitude - completely unlike their predecessor, Thunderbyte.

Best regards,
Marc

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Replying to a message of Bjarte Boe to All:

FROM: 1:379/103
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I recently reopned my BBS, and I am running OS/2 Warp4. I wonder there
are anyone who runs antivirus (that suits OS/2) scan for incoming
files? If yes, can it be used for command line and are the latest
update available?

Norman Antivirus has an OS/2 version. www.norman.com IIRC.
Annual subscription about $40 - which, of course, I forgot to renew <sigh>.

The old IBM Antivirus was sold to Norton, which promptly killed off the OS/2 version.

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