samba - Nov 2004 - [Off Topic] Managed desktop virus scanner in Samba 3 Enviroment

Hi,

As we are moving away from an NT based enviroment to SAMBA we are
looking for a managed virus scanner for our desktops. Managed means:

1. Remote deployment
2. Updates from a local repository
3. Notification and reporting.

The existing solutions (Symantec, TrendMicro, Mcafee) assume that you
have an NT server. I would much rather have a Linux/Samba based
managment console.

Any ideas/leads?

Thanks


Gil

I spent some time looking for this also...

Based on what I found there really isn't a solution that I could find 
that meet all of my needs.

you should checkout the following

http://www.clamav.net/


Robert
Gil Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we are moving away from an NT based enviroment to SAMBA we are
> looking for a managed virus scanner for our desktops. Managed means:
> 
> 1. Remote deployment
> 2. Updates from a local repository
> 3. Notification and reporting.
> 
> The existing solutions (Symantec, TrendMicro, Mcafee) assume that you
> have an NT server. I would much rather have a Linux/Samba based
> managment console.
> 
> Any ideas/leads?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Gil

I have managed to get Norman AV working where the Linux file server pulls down
the DAT files and the Windows clients pull from the server. The on-access
scanner has not been installed as the kernel
module it wishes to install needs default kernel security removed. Since Linux
viruses are a haa haa haa, need not have the on-access protection! It can be a
tricky beast to get installed /
configured, but then for as cheap as it is... "Good Enough" for now in
my book. Oh, so a cron job runs the command line update to keep the server in
sync with Norman. Simple enough.

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

Remove the upper case letters NOSPAM to contact me directly.

On Friday 26 November 2004 03:38, Gil Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As we are moving away from an NT based enviroment to SAMBA we are
> looking for a managed virus scanner for our desktops. Managed means:
>
> 1. Remote deployment
> 2. Updates from a local repository
> 3. Notification and reporting.
>
> The existing solutions (Symantec, TrendMicro, Mcafee) assume that you
> have an NT server. I would much rather have a Linux/Samba based
> managment console.
>
> Any ideas/leads?
You might take a look at Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus solution.  I 
would recommend finding some way to get an evaluation installation before 
actually committing to a purchase.