Rehi, please see my answers below. On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > [...] > > > Why is that a problem? Do you have Windows clients accessing the system > > > through NFS? > > > > Not necessarily, but I'd like to be on the safe side. > > On what safe side? > > Can you give an example of a threat you wish to mitigate with such a > scan? A Windows client using WinSCP to a directory that's both NFS and CIFS exported, perhaps? Furthermore, free NFS v3/v4 clients for Windows can become available and then this threat can become real... > > Are you aware of the overhead? No, can't judge it, to be honest. > Are you aware of the potential threat that someone might trigger a > security hole in either the module or the (omnipotent) scanner by > reading a specially-crafted file? Yes, but that can always be the problem, regardless of the underlying file system. Greetings, Holger
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