Re: [squid-users] File extension blocking rules

From: Roberto Berlim Fonseca <roberto@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:39:45 -0300

We had tried this kind of Squid+Dansguardian+clamav with poor results
here. We experienced unbearable latency under heavy load.

Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães escreveu:

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> Odhiambo WASHINGTON escreveu:
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>> It's time to integrate a true content filter, like Dansguardian[1],
>> which will (when integrated with an Anti-virus) do real scanning of
>> all content. Squid can then do what is was born for - caching/proxying.
>>
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> Yes, great tip ..... but unfortunelly most of the antivirus will
> fail to catch most of those worms that are being sent in .scr links on
> emails these days ...
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> I have tested several of these worms, collected in my users
> messages, and scanned with clamav McAfee and Norton .... it was nearly
> a completly failure.
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> I agree that integrating squid with antivirus is great, but it's
> wrong to think that this will keep you free from these kind of shit
> that will reach your network/users through http ...... Unfortunelly,
> but at least in my tests, completly true.
>
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