Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/17/08 02:43, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Do you scan it weekly or something?
In the night.
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