Re: Software/Personal Firewall and Anti-Virus Integration

From: Chinchilla (newsguy@badnews.d2g.com)
Date: 07/17/02 

From: Chinchilla <newsguy@badnews.d2g.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:40:08 -0400

>From what I've heard, WinGate 5.0 is supposed to this. I'm not positive
how the anti-virus plug-in part works (packet scan or buffer scan? -
prob the latter)

In any case, I've been using WinGtae 4.5.1 for some time now (sans AV)
and it works great on my dialup. The ENS provides firewall protection,
so I think 5.0 may be along the lines of what you're looking for.

If you find out how the AV works, let me know, I'd be interested...I
guess I could ask their techs <g>

Chinchilla

In article <3D358662.DB3ECB60@earth.universe>, somone@earth.universe
says...
> Hi,
>
> We're building an HTTP client application that will run on a low spec.
> windows based PC with internet access through a dial-up ISP. We're
> intending to use a software/personal firewall to protect the PC but also
> require that downloaded files be virus scanned. My understanding is that
> a software firewall is a layer within the TCP stack that can be
> configured to only allow certain protocols on certain ports.
>
> My question: is there a software firewall that is, or can be, integrated
> with anti-virus software, so that the downloaded files are virus scanned
> before they are received by our HTTP client ? If not I assume it will be
> the responsibility of our HTTP client software to initiate a scan on the
> downloaded files ?
>
> Cheers
> P
>
>

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