>The only virus scanner that I can find for zLinux is ClamAV, building it from source code.
For what it's worth, Novell offers ClamAV as an rpm for SLES. http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=dKWXSg26nVU~ Floyd Rodery, Linux on System z DISA Computing Services Department of Defense > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rachel Malavasic > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 12:41 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Virus Scanner for Linux for System z > > 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
