Topic: Dansguardian - Antispy and http antivirus possible?

[daley]

Hey,

I hv been studied the Dansguardian howto, i wish to know is it possible to enable the anti-spyware, anti-adware, http anti-virus, so that, we can put a stop at the smeserver control.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/dansguardian%20instal%20&%20configure%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

Pls advise.

[raem]

daley

Have a look at the dansguardian web site. It talks about how to do that.
http://dansguardian.org/

[daley]

Hey Ray

  i have looked thru the dansguardian site, i was lost inside, i am not able to the howto pls pls pls help.

Thank you so much in advance.

Regards,
Daley

[raem]

daley

There is no HOWTO at the dg site as such, you need to read and work out how to put the pieces together yourself.

Note that within the standard dansguardian configuration, you can control what types of files are allowed to be downloaded etc so there is some considerable degree of control already built in by default. See my HOWTO and read the prompts at the start of each of the dg config files, they tell you how to use each config file.

At the workstation level (Windows) you can use the following freeware quite effectively
AVG
adaware
spybot search & destroy
and
spyblaster

[raem]

daley

Took me 5 seconds to find this

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=27215&group_id=131757

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=27215&group_id=131757#14

[raem]

daley

...and another 20 seconds to find this

http://dansguardian.org/?page=extras

http://www.harvest.com.br/asp/afn/dg.nsf

See Antivirus plugin FAQ
&
Antivirus plugin README

[buknoy]

Hi Mr. Mitchell,

I finally downloaded DansGuardian from http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dungog/files/dansguardian/DansGuardian-2.6.1-3.RH72.i386.rpm and installed it following the instructions from contribs.org. However, I could not find the location and file name of the "access denied page". The content of /var/www/dansguardian/dansguardian.pl is not the same as the one displayed on the client side. Is there another file that controls the "access denied page"?

Buknoy

[raem]

buknoy

> ....file name of the "access denied page"

Check in /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf
I'm sure it specifies the name of that file
which is
/etc/dansguardian/template.html

[buknoy]

Mr. Mitchell,

Thanks for the reply. Silly of me not to read the remarks regarding the default HTML template. I was concentrating on the accessdeniedaddress = 'http://your.domain/dansguardian.pl' setting.

I wish you could have time creating an instruction regarding the DansGuardian's capability to serve as anti-spyware and anti-virus. The fact that I could not afford DansGuardian's commercial version, I also have little knowledge of Linux.

BTW, is there a way of upgrading DansGuardian without uninstalling the old version?

Thanks,
Buknoy

[raem]

buknoy

> I wish you could have time creating an instruction > regarding the DansGuardian's capability to serve
> as anti-spyware and anti-virus.

I wish I could have time too !

The information is all there  though, it's just a matter of eading it and working out how to implelment it.
The standard DG already has a lot of that type of functionality, but it needs to be configured/enabled. Check (read) each DG configuration file and you will see what the capabilities are, especially blocking download various file types extensions. All the config files are listed in the HOWTO. For more detail about DG see the DG website
http://dansguardian.org/

>...is there a way of upgrading DansGuardian without
> uninstalling the old version?

rpm -Uvh rpmname
should do it, just watch for any dependencies.