[Samba] Anyone using antivirus software?

Ken Kleiner
Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:55:00 -0000

Hi....

  I would recommend using SOPHOS (www.sophos.com).  This is a very stable
and robust antivirus package that runs on MANY platforms, including linux,
(and even VMS).

  You can schedule it with a cron job, etc.

  They have a 3 month eval at www.sophos.com.

-Ken


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> Hello list,
>            I was just wondering if anyone is using anti-virus software on
> their Samba server. I have protection on my clients, but I want to run >
software on the server too. I've looked at McAfee's Virus Scan, but as
far > as I can tell, it only uses "on-demand" scanning, meaning I
have to > trigger it from the command line, or run a cron job. I would like
to have > something that is real-time, and detects an infected immediately,
without > my interaction. This is how the McAfee AV software works on the
client > PC's running Windows. Anyone know of a similar product?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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Ken Kleiner
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Computer Science Department
Umass Lowell

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