RE: Sprint Plans Service To Detect Viruses

David Wetherall (djw@cs.washington.edu)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:05:13 -0700

i don't understand how this works .. do you know if it's a packet or
proxy-level solution?

it seems difficult to cleanly shutdown a virus transfer w/o buffering and
vetting the whole transfer, since by the time you know there's a virus the
transfer is already in progress to the final destination. presumably the
gateway understands the connection semantics and aborts virus transfers?

djw

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Savage [mailto:savage@cs.washington.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:18 PM
To: syn
Subject: Sprint Plans Service To Detect Viruses

Sprint is going to start offering a service where they scan packets before
they enter your network and block those carrying viruses. They use a
firewall from Trend that does pattern matches against a big virus database.

- Stefan

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