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. -- Tue Jul 1 12:30:00 EST 2003 12:30:00 up 6 days, 12:16, 4 users, load average: 1.02, 1.09, 1.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Oatmeal raisin.
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