[Samba] Anyone using antivirus software?
Ken Kleiner
ken at cs.uml.edu
Thu Jun 13 10:55:00 GMT 2002
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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> <DIV> I was =
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> I've=20
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> similar product?</DIV>
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> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
> <DIV>Brian</DIV><HR><P>The contents of this message have been scanned for viruses =
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Ken Kleiner
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Computer Science Department
Umass Lowell
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