[clamav-users] url scanner

Steve Basford steveb_clamav at sanesecurity.com
Thu Dec 18 14:40:02 UTC 2014


On Thu, December 18, 2014 2:29 pm, polloxx wrote:
> Since more and more malware is not attached to a mail but only an url to
> it, detecting it is challenge. Is there any good url scanner avalable for
> Clamav?


Millions of years ago...there used to be a clamd.conf MailFollowURLs Yes
option, which I think used to go away and download from whatever links
were there.

Obviously, there's a performace hit etc. from doing that

Changelog...

Thu Aug  6 22:26:30 CEST 2009 (tk)
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 * clamd, clamscan, libclamav: drop support for MailFollowURLs (bb#1677)

Cheers,

Steve
Sanesecurity.com




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