Dear Rudi, what software do you think using to do that operations? Best Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. eduardo.silvestre at nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rudi Ahlers" <Rudi at SoftDux.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 4:23:59 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [CentOS] can I use CentOS as a antivirus / spam filter / HTTP AV gateway? Hi all I've been thinking about using CentOS on a Dell R200 server and turn it into a firewall / network monitor / traffic shaper in our datacentre, instead of using a dedicated firewall device. One of the devices that I have been looking at, with my limited budget, is the D-Link DFL 860 - http://www.netdefend.eu/Product.aspx?m=15&ref=DFL-860 It provides AV, SPI, VPN, DOS, P2P, etc protection. Most of this can be done with Linux as well, but I'm not 100% sure about the AV part. How will I use / setup CentOS to check all traffic coming in & out (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, etc) for virusses and clean them? We host both Windows & Linux servers, and I'm not too worried about the Linux servers, but Windows needs a lot of extra protection. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos