[Samba] McAfee 8 incompatible with Samba

[Michael Brown]

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Try excluding the samba shares from McAfee, and run clam antivirus with
the samba-vscan vfs module local to the samba boxen.  Clam AV is up to
par with McAfee as far as novel vx/malware sigs.

You can find that here:
http://www.clamav.net
http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php

Hope this helps.

Dragan Krnic wrote:
> I've parsed a whole year's worth of postings in this group
> and didn't find any previous reference to the problem.
> 
> Since I've updated McAfee to version 8 many applications
> which open file chooser dialogs report "Access denied"
> when trying to open a Samba share, including the users's
> own home directory.
> 
> At installation one can choose to exclude some apps from
> the shield, e.g. Lotus Notes, but if I have to exclude
> MS Internet Explorer, which is the app for many web apps,
> then the very purpose of a virus shield is defeated.
> 
> Is there some better way to configure such problems out?
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