• OS/2 virus scan in BBS

    From Bjarte Boe@2:211/42 to All on Friday, March 21, 2003 16:15:00
    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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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to Bjarte Boe on Friday, March 21, 2003 04:37:16

    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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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:237/53 to Sean Dennis on Friday, April 11, 2003 01:26:22
    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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  • From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to Sean Dennis on Friday, April 11, 2003 07:49:29
    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
    -=Team OS/2=-
    --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Marsh BBS (c), Dawson Creek, BC Canada (1:17/23.1)
  • From Mike Luther@1:117/3001 to Gord Hannah on Friday, April 11, 2003 19:39:46
    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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    * Origin: Ziplog Public Port (1:117/3001)
  • From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to Mike Luther on Saturday, April 12, 2003 09:21:01
    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=-
    --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Marsh BBS (c), Dawson Creek, BC Canada (1:17/23.1)
  • From Mike Luther@1:117/3001 to Gord Hannah on Saturday, April 12, 2003 13:26:00
    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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    * Origin: Ziplog Public Port (1:117/3001)
  • From Bjarte Boe@2:211/42 to Gord Hannah on Monday, April 14, 2003 04:57:18
    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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  • From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to Bjarte Boe on Monday, April 14, 2003 09:02:40
    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=-
    --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Marsh BBS (c), Dawson Creek, BC Canada (1:17/23.1)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to Gord Hannah on Saturday, April 19, 2003 21:25:50
    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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  • From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to Sean Dennis on Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:12:39
    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=-
    --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Marsh BBS (c), Dawson Creek, BC Canada (1:17/23.1)
  • From Marc Lewis@1:396/45.1 to Mike Luther on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:50:04
    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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    * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS SysOp Point (1:396/45.1)
  • From Bob Ackley@1:379/103.104 to Bjarte Boe on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 03:05:22
    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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