Chris;
I am not personally aware of any open source solutions for server based
virus protection and detection on LINUX, but I have used a commercial
product from Trend called Server Protect. More information on it is
available at http://www.trendmicro.com/products/splinux/
Additionally, their Interscan Virus Wall is an excellent product for
scanning E-Mail, Proxy Traffic, and FTP Traffic from an Internet Host.
I've got Server Protect running on about a dozen of my clients' LINUX /
SAMBA servers. It's been solid as a rock, reliable and effective. The
same is true of the Interscan Virus Wall for Internet hosts.
I hope this helps. While the software is not open source, nor free it is
excellent in quality and reliability.
Aaron
At 02:30 PM 9/12/2002, you wrote:>I was at a meeting today and one of the participants came up to me after
>the meeting to ask a Samba-related question. The problem he is facing
>is that he's got a bunch of Windows clients which are, of course,
>vulnerable to viruses and such. During the meeting there was some
>discussion of software that would run on a Novell NetWare server and scan
>for windows viruses in "real time". The question was: could this
be done
>with Samba?
>
>After thinking a moment it occurred to me that it should be possible to
>build a Samba VFS layer that would do virus scanning *iff* there is Open
>Source virus scanning software available. Files could be scanned on open,
>create, close.
>
>I don't know if this idea has been suggested before. I think it would
be
>a very nice feature for Samba if it could be made to work.
>
>Chris -)------
>
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