On Wed, 6 May 1998, Stephan Greene wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Ezekiel J. Krahlin wrote:
>
> > What is available for Red Hat 5.0, in the way of antivirus programs? Thanks
> > in advance.
>
> I believe there is a version of Network Associates (ex McAfee) virsu
> scanner software that runs fine on Linux. There may be others as well
> that a web search would find.
>
> FWIW, the McAfee scanner will detect MSDOS/Windows virii as long as they
> are on an uncompressed (no .zip, .tar.gz) file on the Linux box file
> system.
>
> Steve
Since there's only one known Linux virus in existance, Bliss, McAfee's
virus scanner is only for looking for DOS/Windows viruses. If your
concern as to a virus scanner for RedHat is that your Linux system will
get infected with viruses, worry not about viruses, just stay up to date
on security and bugfixes.
Here's the help screen from uvscan (McAfee's scanner):
Usage: uvscan [option list] <file>
-c, --clean clean infected files (when possible.)
-d, --data-directory DIRECTORY use data files in DIRECTORY.
--delete delete infected files.
-e, --exit-on-error exit immediately upon encountering
errors.
-f, --file FILE get a list of files to scan from FILE.
-h, --help print (this) help information.
--ignore-compressed ignore compressed files.
--ignore-links don't follow symbolic links.
-m, --move DIRECTORY move files to DIRECTORY, preserving
path.
--one-file-system don't descend directories on other
filesystems.
-r, --recursive scan directories recursively.
-s, --selected scan only selected files.
--summary show summary results after scanning.
-v, --verbose verbosely report progress.
--virus-list display information on known viruses.
>From the man page:
--ignore-compressed
Do not scan compressed files. By default, Uvscan
will internally unpack certain kinds of compressed
files and scan the decompressed form.
Cheers!
-macker
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