Hello Rachel, there is some comments here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg49021.html
<http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg49021.html>that might be useful. Excerpt: "However, they can be CPU resource intensive, so you might want to consider offloading the virus scanning functions to an Intel or AIX box, if possible." Best, M On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Rachel Malavasic <rach...@xbw.cnchost.com>wrote: > My corporate information security department requires that all servers on > the company’s intranet run a virus scanner. The only virus scanner that I > can find for zLinux is ClamAV, building it from source code. Is there an > “industry standard” or best practice(s) for virus scanning or not scanning > on zLinux? Is there documentation that I can cite for my management? > > Also, we have some concerns about the overhead of running virus scanners on > a large number of zLinux instances on the same CPU. Is anyone doing this? > Any advice? > > Thanks, > Rachel > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- Mauro Parra-Miranda Novell Engineer - novell.com openSUSE Developer - openSUSE.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
