!CraigBox's Birthday!

The topic will be "Giving Craig Gifts and Adoration", by order of the WLUG Secretary!

And the subtopic

Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Linux.

CrawshawSchoo?, 7:30pm.

Synopsis (please add to me)

• Why viruses in Linux (and almost any other non-MS operating system) are not currently an issue, and are unlikely to ever become one.

  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33226.html

• getting your LinuxRouterBox to run Exim, Amavis, SpamAssassin, Razor and ClamAV (CraigBox/GreigMcGill)

  • MailScanner
• BayesianFiltering in Mozilla (DanielLawson/PerryLorier?)

• plugging SpamAssassin into Evolution (anyone?)

  • http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/evolution.html
  • http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin.php
  • bogofilter & marking msgs spam/ham: http://www.ime.usp.br/rsilva/bogo-and-evo/
  • .forward/.procmail: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-March/028045.html
  • Ximian's answer
  • http://krath.dk/linux/evolution_spamfilter/

• plugging SpamAssassin into KMail

  • http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/kmail.html
  • http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html
• possible use of DNS to stop spam at the SMTP level - eg http://spf.pobox.com/, Reverse MX?, or RR records (see http://www.irtf.org/asrg/survey_of_proposals.htm)
• Virus scanning of cached web pages through the use of Squid, DansGuardian, and MailScanner (GerwinVanDeSteeg)