Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>>> Don Sutter wrote: >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like >>>>> to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is >>>>> generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust >>>>> enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, Windows >>>>> and a Windows based anti-virus? Ideas? >>>> Did you give clamav a try? It is in the repos. > >> >>> But can it run stand-alone, to analyze all files in a tree, or plug >>> into Samba, so that all new or modified files get scanned? >>> >> >> Samba shares are just mounted file systems right? So I am sure that >> clamav can simply be used to scan those files in the shares... > > *If* it can run stand-alone. > >> I don't >> think any special hook to plug in to samba. > > I figured as much, but it makes it more expensive to scan for malware. >
If you have mounted your windows shares to linux over samba, you just have to tell clamav to scan the point where they are mounted. We have a very good experience with it. In fact we extended clamav with commercial kaspersky for linux and the resultss are more then satisfaying. I did not understand if you need it for private or company use. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]