protecting Win shares from viruses on Linux side

Mark Shearar samba at penguin.za.org
Fri Jan 4 10:17:19 GMT 2002


I'm currently using Trend Server Protect for Linux and it works quite
nicely.  Only drawback is that it will only work on Redhat and only with
the Redhat kernel. (ie no kernel upgrades).  Another one is McAfee but
to be honest, it never picks up anything!!


On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 19:47, Ionel GARDAIS wrote:
> thanks for the advice.
> 
> I explain myself about "crashing"
> 
> when the worm is active, smbd launches a lot of thread
> owned by the user with the infected file.
> 
> then, all the following threads are launch about 10
> times in a second.
> 
> this puts samba in a panic that unable users to log
> and/or to access their shares if they are already
> logged.
> 
> finaly, smbd doesn't react to kill <pid> or hill -HUP
> <pid>
> 
> the only solution is then to reboot the server.
> 
> here is the explication of what I mean by "crash"
> 
> cu,
> ioio
> 
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