[63379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP network registration virus scan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Lambert)
Fri Oct 3 19:54:22 2003
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:53:26 -0500
From: Alex Lambert <alambert@quickfire.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310031934410.19444-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> The university netreg lists has a frequently asked question if its
> possible to perform a virus scan of new computers as part of the network
> registration process. So far, people have only been able to do a network
> scan (e.g. open ports), or some version of proxy check or nessus.
The University of Florida has implemented something like this.
Apparently, they have a client-side app that detects malware...and P2P
apps. Interesting concept but it's understandably not being received well.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/03/1643202.shtml
apl
