PC Virus scanning on *nix side?

[Scott Lawson]

Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:49:21 +0900 (JST)
From:   Steve Frampton <frampton at j-com.co.jp>
To:     Multiple recipients of list SAMBA <samba at samba.org>
Subject: PC Virus scanning on *nix side?
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Hi:

I'm just wondering what some of you are using for virus scanners -- a
scan
of all of our shares indicated the presence of several viruses.  It
would
be nice if our Samba server (running on Linux) could do periodic scans
and
then take some kind of corrective action (clean/remove virus or at least

e-mail the administrator).

Cheers...

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Steve,

We use Mcafee Netshield for Solaris (2.6 and 2.7). It is also available
for Linux and FreeBSD.
Mcafee keeps it very up-to-date and it works very well and is very
quick. We scan
approx 1 million files every night with it and it has served us well.
Logging and cleaning/isolation
of infected files works very well. The software is very configurable.
Works well in a two-tier
approach to virus control. ie On the PC and on the server.

Regards,

Scott.

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Scott Lawson
Systems Manager
Department Of Information Services
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Tooting
London SW17 0RE
UK

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