Does anyone have any suggestions for a virus scanner for a samba file server? I know there is antivir - but are there any others? Andy
Andy, Try using Mcafee anti virus, it works very well. I use here on several big Solaris Samba servers. It is also available for Linux and other UNIX's. I can provide cron scripts if you need them for doing nightly scans and cleans. Regards, Scott. Message: 11 From: "Andrew Judge" <ajudge1@bellsouth.net> To: "Samba" <samba@samba.org>, "Samba-Ntdom" <samba-ntdom@us5.samba.org> Subject: Virus scanner for samba file server Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:07:00 -0500 Does anyone have any suggestions for a virus scanner for a samba file server? I know there is antivir - but are there any others? Andy -- __________________________________________________________________ Scott Lawson Systems Manager Department Of Information Services St. George's Hospital Medical School Tooting London SW17 0RE UK P: 44 (0)208 725 2896 F: 44 (0)208 725 3583 mailto:s.lawson@sghms.ac.uk http://www.sghms.ac.uk Quote of the week : "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like a bacon-and-eggs breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." __________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: s.lawson.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 319 bytes Desc: Card for Scott Lawson Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20010110/acc48c08/s.lawson.vcf
> > Andy, > > Try using Mcafee anti virus, it works very well. I use here on several > big > Solaris Samba servers. It is also available for Linux and other UNIX's. > > I can provide cron scripts if you need them for doing nightly scans and > cleans.I'd find this useful too. On the off-chance that this might be true for others, is there any chance you can put them on the web (or up for FTP) and mail the URL to this list? Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ martin@zamenhof.demon.co.uk | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V
[McAfee Anti virus software]> Do you have a product name and URL? I searched around and cannot find any > of their products for anything except the Win platforms. I'm interested in > the linux version. -mThe product is called VirusScan, you can download an evaluation from: http://www.nai.com/asp_set/buy_try/try/products_evals.asp Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ martin@zamenhof.demon.co.uk | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V
I have had good results with F-Secure for Linux for over a year now. This is a "batch" scanner, however, not a dynamic "scan on file open" type of scanner. US$99 for the Linux Workstation version. http://www.f-secure.com/products/anti-virus/workstations/ mtoal _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
>To the best of my knowledge, we've not looked at doing virus scanning >on our mail servers, and since I don't have any role in administering >the mail system I don't know how feasible it would be. I think NAI do >have a product that does mail scanning but I know nothing about it.Sorry replaying a litle off topic message, but it may help some one I'm using uvscan scheduled to rum over night in samba files, also, it scans e-mail attached files that is converted by MHonArc (http://www.mhonarc.org/)as the messages arrive. I also know about a software that scan messages on the server before it arrive in the local computer, it is AMAVIS (http://www.amavis.org/) Roberto>I don't know how suitable the Samba architecture is to hooking in a >virus scanner to do some kind of on-access scanning; for example, >triggering a scan on "file open for read/execute" and "file close (if >originally opened for writing)". Expert opinions? > >Martin >-- >Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ >martin@zamenhof.demon.co.uk | men just upload their important stuff -o) >Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ >- see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V