[Samba] Sama + Virus Detection

Jerry Murdock jmurdock at itraktech.com
Fri Apr 19 06:01:02 GMT 2002


Trend has a Linux ServerProtect product.  I've never used it though.

www.antivirus.com

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Koch" <pkliste at schlund.de>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Sama + Virus Detection


> OAV samba-vscan seems to be a nice one, in the future. But at the moment
it
> only hooks to file open, which is the exact opposite of what I want. I
> assume that a file that exists on the server has already been scanned in
> some way. I only want INCOMING files to be scanned. Samba-vscan only scans
> outgoing files (incoming is on the todo-list), the Kaspersky monitor does
> both.
> pk.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dj at 4ict.com>
> To: "Peter Koch" <pkliste at schlund.de>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Sama + Virus Detection
>
>
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Peter Koch wrote:
> >
> > > I am in the process of replacing our existing netware server by a
linux
> > > samba machine. The setup itself shouldn't be too difficult, everybody
> gets a
> > > home directory and a few shared directories for workgroups in the
> company.
> > > But I'm always looking for a fine working solution for scanning
incoming
> > > (from server view) files for viruses in real time, just like NetShield
> from
> > > NAI does. I bought Kaspersky Anti Virus for Linux Servers, because it
> > > contains it. You have to compile a kernel module that kind of
intercepts
> the
> > > open, close and execute states of files for scanning them. But this is
> not
> > > only slow, it's suuuuuuuper veeeeeery uuuuuultra slow. Copying 100
files
> of
> > > mixed sizes (sum. 100MB) took like 4 minutes, without it it takes no
> more
> > > than 15 seconds or so.
> > >
> > > Anyone with similar problems/solutions/hints ?
> >
> > I'm also setting up something simular, but I'm thinking of using the
> > samba-vscan tool. It is a link between samba and different antivirus
> > tools. See http://www.openantivirus.org/ for more info.
> >
> > I havent tried it yet so I can't comment on how fast it is, but seems
> > worth a try.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim
> >
> > --
> >
>
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> > Tim Verhoeven
> >                                 Linux & Open Source Specialist
> > GSM : 0496 / 693 453                          + e-business solutions
> > Email : dj at 4ict.com                           + consulting
> > URL : www.sin.khk.be/~dj/                     + Server consolidation
> >
>
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