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Re: antivirus for webserver



On, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:10:33AM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
<snip>
> My question is if it is needed to install an antivirus for keeping the
> webserver safe. And if it is needed, which antivirus could I use?
> I thought about clamav but I read about problems keeping up-to-date
> the
> software shipped with etch-stable.
>
> Thank you
> Laura Arjona

You can use freshclam to keep up with latest virus database. You can
also use ClamAV with PHP-scripts if users are sending files to server.

Old ClamAV version should not be a big problem. Of course there is new
features, but I'll bet you don't need those in your webserver.

- Henri Salo


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