Author
My name is Markus Madlener and I'm from Bregenz in Vorarlberg ,which is the most western part of Austria.
(image from Wikipedia)
Some History..
A few years ago (around Nov 2002) I started this project as a pop3 virus scanner (using pop3vscan) on IPCop.
The reason was simple. I didn't want to rely on the virus scanners installed on my other family members machines.
Sometimes the virus signature updates would not work, some virus scanners did not recognize this or that virus,
and most of them would only update once a day.
So I thought why not filter the traffic before it reaches the family PC's and update the virus signatures
every hour on a central machine. This had to happen transparently so that no mail client configuration was necessary.
And so Copfilter was born \o/
Even though it had no webgui or installation script, some friends where already asking for it,
so I started packaging it for them (called it ipcop_addon_pkg at that stage). Then after about a year I
setup a basic website with the possiblity to download ipcop_addon_pkg. It found some users right away :-)
Later on ipcop_addon_pkg was renamed into Copfilter and development continued,
now it even scans for SPAM and includes support for protocols like SMTP, FTP and HTTP.
Enjoy :-)
You can send me mail regarding this website or copfilter @ this address: copfilter at gmx dot net
(for example "hello at test dot com" means hello@test.com)
Please don't publish my email address online like in forums, boards,
etc except in the form (copfilter at gmx dot net) presented above.
This helps reduce my spam mail, thanks!