On Monday 30 June 2003 09:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:23, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Stephen, how do you scan a windows box for bugs? I would like to scan my > > wifes' comp from my linux system and show her what shows up for virii and > > wormies. Can you point me in the right direction for knowledge base. I > > don't even know the right words or man pages to look at. Thanks > > Mate, what I use is "f-prot" to do my scanning on Win boxen; I > registered for free as a "small business user" - very easy to setup and > install - and there's an interface now written in GTK called "XFProt" > that gives you a wonderful GUI to setup/choose options for doing your > scanning. > > I mount the machine in question (using SMB/NMB of course) and then just > scan that mounted directory (and all subdirectories thereof). Works like > a champ, and is faster than doing a scan on the machine locally - and > keep in mind that if a bug is TRYING to hide from the Windows subsystem, > you can at least catch it from the linux side. > > I have a cron job setup to download the latest definitions once per day > (and they're not really that large), and another cron job to scan the > shared network drive I have for doing customer backups and general file > sharing...so it keeps stuff quite squeaky clean.
Sorry about the hijacking. I should have re-subjected. (is that a word?) But the answer is what I need to start the process. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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