Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/17/08 02:43, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >>>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 >>>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>>>>> Don Sutter wrote: >>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would >>>>>>> like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is >>>>>>> generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions >>>>>>> robust enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, >>>>>>> Windows and a Windows based anti-virus? Ideas? >>>>>> Did you give clamav a try? It is in the repos. >>> >> >>>>> But can it run stand-alone, to analyze all files in a tree, or plug >>>>> into Samba, so that all new or modified files get scanned? >>>>> >>>> Samba shares are just mounted file systems right? So I am sure that >>>> clamav can simply be used to scan those files in the shares... >>> *If* it can run stand-alone. >>> >>>> I don't >>>> think any special hook to plug in to samba. >>> I figured as much, but it makes it more expensive to scan for malware. >>> >> >> If you have mounted your windows shares to linux over samba, you just >> have to tell clamav to scan the point where they are mounted. >> We have a very good experience with it. In fact we extended clamav with >> commercial kaspersky for linux and the resultss are more then >> satisfaying. > > Do you scan it weekly or something?
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