[Samba] Anyone using antivirus software?

Ken McCord ken at themccords.com
Thu Jun 13 17:33:03 GMT 2002


I concur.  We use their SMTP MailMonitor to on our SMTP gateway server. 
We are also evaluating them (along with McAfee and Norton) to replace
Cheyenne on our desktop population.

They offer 30 evaluation of their software as well.

Ken McCord


On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 13:42, Ken Kleiner wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> > 
> > This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to 
> > consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to 
> > properly handle MIME multipart messages.
> > 
> > --=_FDA1C574.36573271
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > The contents of this message have been scanned for viruses by
> > the Clearswift ES Policy Server, and no viruses were found.
> > 
> > --=_FDA1C574.36573271
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > Content-Description: HTML
> > 
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> > <HTML><HEAD>
> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1"=
> > >
> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
> > <BODY style=3D"MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 10pt Courier New; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px">
> > <DIV>Hello list,</DIV>
> > <DIV>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was =
> > just=20
> > wondering if anyone is using anti-virus software on their Samba server. I =
> > have=20
> > protection on my clients, but I want to run software on the server too. =
> > I've=20
> > looked at McAfee's Virus Scan, but as far as I can tell, it only uses=20
> > "on-demand" scanning, meaning I have to trigger it from the command line, =
> > or run=20
> > a cron job. I would like to have something that is real-time, and detects =
> > an=20
> > infected immediately, without my interaction. This is how the McAfee AV =
> > software=20
> > works on the client PC's running Windows. Anyone know of&nbsp;a=20
> > similar&nbsp;product?</DIV>
> > <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
> > <DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
> > <DIV>Brian</DIV><HR><P>The contents of this message have been scanned for viruses =
> > by<BR>the Clearswift ES Policy Server, and no viruses were =
> > found.<BR></P>
> > </BODY></HTML>
> > 
> > --=_FDA1C574.36573271--
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> <><  ><> <><  ><> <><  ><> <><  ><> <><  ><> <><  
> 
> Ken Kleiner
> System Manager
> Computer Science Department
> Umass Lowell
> 
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> 
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> 
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