Virus Scanning Options for Web Proxy

Hi There,
The release notes for 3.6 state that Virus Scanning is no longer supported as a function of the product.
What options do I have to virus scan in and outbound content? Is there a virus scanner that plugs in via the NSAPI?
Cheers
Andrew

Hi
This thread was interesting as I have many customer sites using virus scanning without any problems together with this proxy.. Some sites are really huge as well.
Can the author of this thread explain how the scanning that now refuse to work is done with the proxyserver... Through an API or as forwarded requests to another scanning proxy (trend micro etc.) or what ? Maybe this is done in some way I am not aware of. Then I am really interested in your problem.
We mostly use it "user->proxy->vscanner->site" where the proxy and the scanner often run at the same host. This in huge installations together with load balancers infront and behind.
/Per-Olov

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