Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>>>> Don Sutter wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like
>>>>> to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is
>>>>> generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust
>>>>> enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, Windows
>>>>> and a Windows based anti-virus? Ideas?
>>>> Did you give clamav a try? It is in the repos.
>  >>
>>> But can it run stand-alone, to analyze all files in a tree, or plug
>>> into Samba, so that all new or modified files get scanned?
>>>
>> 
>> Samba shares are just mounted file systems right? So I am sure that
>> clamav can simply be used to scan those files in the shares...
> 
> *If* it can run stand-alone.
> 
>>                                                                I don't
>> think any special hook to plug in to samba.
> 
> I figured as much, but it makes it more expensive to scan for malware.
> 

If you have mounted your windows shares to linux over samba, you just have
to tell clamav to scan the point where they are mounted.
We have a very good experience with it. In fact we extended clamav with
commercial kaspersky for linux and the resultss are more then satisfaying.

I did not understand if you need it for private or company use.

regards