Bug#135487: ITP: tams -- The Anomy sanitizer is what most people would call "an email virus scanner".

[Adam Byrtek <alpha@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


The Anomy sanitizer is what most people would call "an email virus
scanner". That description is not totally accurate, but it does cover
one of the more important jobs that the sanitizer can do for you - it
can scan email attachments for viruses. Other things it can do:

    * Disable potentially dangerous HTML code, such as javascript,
within incoming email.
    * Protect you from email-based break-in attempts which exploit
bugs in common email programs (Outlook, Eudora, Pine, ...).
    * Block or "mangle" attachments based on their file names. This
way if you don't need to recieve e.g. visual basic scripts, then you
don't have to worry about the security risk they imply (the ILOVEYOU
virus was a visual basic program). This lets you protect yourself and
your users from whole classes of attacks, without relying on complex,
resource intensive and outdated virus scanning solutions.

When I finish, it would close RFP #130638


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