How do you guys protect Samba shares from Win32 based viruses?

Ariel Mella samba at nebula-sa.com.ar
Thu Dec 6 10:37:02 GMT 2001


Currently exist a vfs module "on acces" scanning.
its in earlier versions but is very stable, and function very well.
giveit a try. 
www.openantivirus.org and looking for samba-vscan.


> Sophos appears to make an actually on access scanning engine for UNIX. 
> Something I've not seen from any of the other vendors.  I have not used
> it nor do I know anything about it other than what I read on the
> sophos.com website.
> 
> At the moment I just have scanning on the Client side, and I run a cron
> job to scan the linux box via uvscan that comes with McAfee Active Virus
> Defense.  It's just an on-demand scanner, but I run it on the areas
> people touch every 3 hours or so.  I know that's not good enough but I'm
> guessing it's better than nothing.
> 
> Chris Tooley
> 
> On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 10:22, Kevin wrote:
> > That's pretty much the question.  I've got Symantec
> > NAVCE running on my NT server protecting itself, the
> > Windows clients and the Exchange server, but what do i
> > do about my Linux based Samba server?
> > 
> > Will a linux based AV app search for Win32 based
> > viruses?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > VeKTeReX
> > 
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