centrally scanning data packets for viruses
 

hi forum,
have deployed coyote linux as my internet gateway and is a diskless node. so i cant install any antivirus software on the system. is there any way of installing the antivirus software on any one of the nodes and scanning all incoming packets for viruses???????
all my nodes are win 95/98 clients and have a cable connection. any help will be appreciated.
thanks.......................bye

I don't think you'd be able to get this working on a packet level as you'll need to assemble all the packets for a specific transfer then scan then - otherwise you'll never find any suspect data. You might be able to run some sort of proxy to scan all incomming http data with specific MIME types but I assume this is a challenge to setup (if at all possible) as I've never seen it done; hence people roll out anti-virus software on the desktop. I know you can get apps to scan incomming mail attachments if you have your own mail relay, mimesweeper being one, but I don't know if there is a linux version.

cheers

Jamie...