Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-12-11 Thread Holger Rauch
hat I can't rely on all client PCs having up-to-date virus scanner software, so this measure would be some kind of safety net. >Instead protect your Linux with things like > rkhunter. Thanks for that hint. I will take it into account. > > Also all your windows PCs already have to

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-30 Thread Berni Elbourn
Holger Rauch wrote: Hi, On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: Holger Rauch wrote: I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian system for on access virus scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created or its contents are modified in some way). Why, when it's so much easier to not allow conne

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > Holger Rauch wrote: > > > I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian system for on access virus > > scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created or its contents are > > modified in some way). > > Why, when it's so much easier to not allow connectio

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Holger Rauch wrote: > I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian system for on access virus > scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created or its contents are > modified in some way). Why, when it's so much easier to not allow connections from insecure operating systems prone to virus infection t

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Rehi, please see my answers below. On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > [...] > > > Why is that a problem? Do you have Windows clients accessing the system > > > through NFS? > > > > Not necessarily, but I'd like to be on the safe side. > > On what safe side? > > Can you give an e

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:26:12AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > [...] > > Why is that a problem? Do you have Windows clients accessing the system > > through NFS? > > Not necessarily, but I'd like to be on the safe side. On what safe side

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > [...] > Why is that a problem? Do you have Windows clients accessing the system > through NFS? Not necessarily, but I'd like to be on the safe side. Furthermore, there seem to be many Dazuko versions around: - dazuko-source_2.3.3-1_all.deb - dazuk

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:49:38PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi to everybody, > > I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian Lenny system for on > access virus scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created and/or its > contents are modified in some way). > > I'm aware that there's the Dazuko mo

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
o module, but allegedly it doesn't > seem to support NFSv3 or NFSv4 file systems since NFS uses socket > communication to write files not "ordinary" file system calls and > Dazuko can only intercept these. > > So, my questions are: > > - Which virus scanner capa

On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-24 Thread Holger Rauch
Sv3 or NFSv4 file systems since NFS uses socket communication to write files not "ordinary" file system calls and Dazuko can only intercept these. So, my questions are: - Which virus scanner capable of performing on acces scanning would you recommend for a central file server running D

On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-22 Thread Holger Rauch
v4 file systems since NFS uses socket communication to write files not "ordinary" file system calls and Dazuko can only handle these. So, my questions are: - Which virus scanner would you recommend for a central file server running Debian Lenny offering FTP, OpenAFS, NFSv4 and SSH/SCP a

The Bombardier Transportation virus scanner detected a virus in a document you authored.

2004-05-10 Thread DEMALNH1
Please contact your local system administrator, and ask for a virus scan of your local machine. The infected file attachment in the scanned document was deleted. Virus Information: The attachment .xx.pif contained the virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was deleted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:17:19PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: > Oh gosh! Can you sense that I'm more than a bit nervous about > getting rid of Sendmail and installing Exim? Is it going to be a > giant job? Does 20 minutes sound like a giant job? - -

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:45:38PM -0500, BruceG wrote: > If you decide to go with exim4-heavy-daemon, there is a great tutorial on > getting SpamAssassin going here :http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt No, no, you can use dman's spamassassin so

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-13 Thread Dan Lawrence
[posted and mailed] On 12 Dec 2003, Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in linux.debian.user: > Oh gosh! Can you sense that I'm more than a bit nervous about > getting rid of Sendmail and installing Exim? Is it going to be a > giant job? Well, I went for postfix over Exim but it went like th

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-12-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Raquel Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have ClamAV running, just checking files. The documentation which > comes with it says that it shouldn't be run to check email. Is this > real? > > So, I went and got Amavis-ng ... but it wouldn't set up properly to > sc

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:19:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > enough to contain the axioms of arithmetic, then there are statements > > which can be made but not proved within that system. It is possible to > > add further axi

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > enough to contain the axioms of arithmetic, then there are statements > which can be made but not proved within that system. It is possible to > add further axioms to prove the statements, but then this richer > axiomatic base will lea

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:19:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ... > > I thought it was neither complete (the doesn't capture all truths thing) > > nor consistent (may contain both a statement and its complement)[1]. > > But I can look that up. > > > > The S

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > I thought it was neither complete (the doesn't capture all truths thing) > nor consistent (may contain both a statement and its complement)[1]. > But I can look that up. > > The Stanford prof told me the Lambda calculus (Lisp-ish stuff) almost > proved o

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:07:18AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:01:16AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system the

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:01:16AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > > > it won't grind out falsehoods ... >

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > > it won't grind out falsehoods ... > > But Goedel's Theorem actually says that in any formal system

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > it won't grind out falsehoods ... But Goedel's Theorem actually says that in any formal system, there will be true propositions that cannot be proved (without going

Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:19:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and you weren't in it for the $$$ ?? > (just that bugs and exploits exists? ) When I learned about Godel's work I really freaked out. When I learned there are certain true statements which are not expressible by manipulation of symbo

qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you shoul

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:34:43 -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> >> > >> > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. >> > Following the same premise as for Knuth, y

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > > similarly lucrative opportuni

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > similarly lucrative opportunity. You might find the page detailing this > offer of interest: > >

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:41:47AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > > similarly lucrative opportunity. You might find the page detailing this > > offer of interest: > > Touc

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:34:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > [snip everybody] > > > I have this belief that for any arbitrary large

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: ... > > > I have this belief that for any arbitrary large block of code, the # of > > > undiscovered root exploits to be very large (I actually beleve the # to > > > be limitless -- humans are infinitely clever). > > > > I have this belief that the moon is mad

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Again: you're displaying gross ignorance of this topic. Inform > > yourself before you seek to inform others. The basis for my credulity is The Undedcidability Theorem. Read "The Illusion of Technique" by Barrett. European mathematicians

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [snip everybody] > > > > Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an > > unknown root exploit in the wild. > > Yes. Which is v

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [snip everybody] > > Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an > unknown root exploit in the wild. Yes. Which is very likely fully independent of the OS on which the code lives. In other words,

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
[snip everybody] Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an unknown root exploit in the wild. I have this belief that for any arbitrary large block of code, the # of undiscovered root exploits to be very large (I actually beleve the # to be limitless -- humans are infi

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 04:53 Subject: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner? > On Thu, 27 Nov

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 02:27 GMT, Alvin Oga penned: - best way is to disallow all mime attachements.. even windoze users... but guess the ceo and managers like to pass excel attachments to each other which they can do locally thru their local mail server .. The le

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Karsten M. Self wrote: Incidentally, which was it? Linux/OSF-8759. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >I think that many do. I think your fears are somewhat misplaced. > > >The advice is still valid. > > I think why some of us have taken such exception to Paul's flippant > reply is because

freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > I have a friend who is 1000 times smarter about Unix than me, and he has > told me the whole history of Sendmail exploits, Bind exploits, and > horriblly crufty design decisions and gaffs and el crapo code all > throughout the history of Unix. His personal op

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:06:54 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:33:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > > I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, > > > integrit, SYN cookies, iptab

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
to be crow one > day we will all eat. ... and having digested that, we'll move on the better for it. I think your basic premise is flawed, that Linux is claimed to be perfect and immune from exploits. On the subject (Re: recommended Virus Scanner?), I recently included one in my .procm

Linux security vs. foo (was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:57:18AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Thanks for the excellent answers. > > > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. > > >GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's general

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Karsten M. Self wrote: I think that many do. I think your fears are somewhat misplaced. The advice is still valid. I think why some of us have taken such exception to Paul's flippant reply is because this is debian-user, not debian-guru. We do have people here who are Debian, linux and/or

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:33:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, > > integrit, SYN cookies, iptables, etc. don't really look like the > > products of a "can't happen here"

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, > integrit, SYN cookies, iptables, etc. don't really look like the > products of a "can't happen here" mentality. On the cont

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:53:31AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > Hello Tom, > > With all due respect to your friend, if he knew what he was talking > about regarding Unix security, he wouldn't be using Free, he'd be using > Open. His comments about Unix security were about commercial and historic

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 02:27 GMT, Alvin Oga penned: > > - best way is to disallow all mime attachements.. even windoze > users... but guess the ceo and managers like to pass excel > attachments to each other which they can do locally thru their local > mail server .. The lead on my latest projec

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:57:18 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Thanks for the excellent answers. > > > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. > > >GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally mar

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-27 Thread Darik Horn
e amavis-ng package from Debian/sarge, which a wraps most of the virus scanners that run natively on Linux. I use the fsavp script because I prefer my virus scanner to work like SpamAssassin, it just inserts a header into messages that I can process with regular tools. > Thanks for the valuab

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-27 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:09:11PM -0800 or thereabouts, Darik Horn wrote: Hi Darik, > ClamAV is the best virus scanner that is free software. On a > Debian/woody computer, you should use a backport of a recent version > like this: How does one run it properly with Exim? I had it sc

processes - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > It's only going to get worse as Linux gets more popular. > > They've had ten plus years. If it was going to happen, it would have > happened.

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Tom
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for the excellent answers. > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. >GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally markedly different >from legacy MS Windows. >I don't think viruses and worm

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. > > This is totally piling on, but given this recent security compromise, > I think the whole Linux community needs to reevaluate its "can't > happen here" ment

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
I use qmail + qmail-scanner + mcafee and it is working for a long time with any problem. Gilberto Em Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:55:52 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hello: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and r

Re: Debian Community Security, was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, David Palmer. wrote: ... > Novell is offering financial enticement, depending on the project, up to > $2500.00 for moving the Gaim buddy list over to Evolution, so they are > obviously going after the desktop market, and the competition factor is > going to be up there. hum

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stephen On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:16:12PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-26 Thread Darik Horn
ClamAV is the best virus scanner that is free software. On a Debian/woody computer, you should use a backport of a recent version like this: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/clamav/ If you wish to purchase a commercial product, then I would recommend F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. As things stand right now, this is essentially true. There is the occasional virus for Linux out there, but they are _exceedingly_ rare. This may change. If it does, then virus-sc

Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Allen
What antivirus scanner available in Debian Woody, do you learned folks recommend? I'm running Exim to a smarthost, with local delivery with Fetchmail/Procmail etc. Thanks. Please cc, as I'm not subscribed to the list with this address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: They don't live very long, or are they very numerous. I believe the current number of viruses for Linux in the wild that haven't died out is somewhere around zero right now. This incident was last month. You're operating under the presumption that a virus, once defeated,

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Tom
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:45:49AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > It's only going to get worse as Linux gets more popular. > > They've had ten plus years. If it was going to happen, it would have > happened. That's Argumentum ad antiquitatem

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:07:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > It's only going to get worse as Linux gets more popular. They've had ten plus years. If it was going to happen, it would have happened. > I think all Linux devs, from Linus on down, need to stop

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:48:12PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Not true. I have seen a Linux virus in the wild. They don't live very long, or are they very numerous. I believe the current number of viruses for Linux in the wild that haven't died

Debian Community Security, was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:07:05 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. > > This is totally piling on, but given this recent security compromise, > I think the whole Linux community needs to reevaluate its "can't > happen here" mentality.

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Tom
> Paul Johnson wrote: > >Non-issue if you don't use Windows. This is totally piling on, but given this recent security compromise, I think the whole Linux community needs to reevaluate its "can't happen here" mentality. I don't care if its social engineering or I-Love-You, if the world comes t

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Non-issue if you don't use Windows. Not true. I have seen a Linux virus in the wild. Further more just because one doesn't use Windows does not mean that they don't use other possible vectors. There's a very old addage for this, maybe you've heard of it? "Better safe

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:37:58PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Yeah sure, so YOU say. I use a Debian box to serve mail to windoze users. > > Thanks for your wisdom. Oh, in that case, if you had read the list archives, you would have found... http://ursin

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:27:46PM -0800 or thereabouts, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya stephen Howdy > more importantly... > - which antivirus sw works and how much for it and how much effort > to admin it ... and does it work .. and what slips by > > - list of antivirus apps >

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:16:12PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > > and rather than download and install several, I would lik

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and rather than download and install several, I would like to have > actual user feedback, on the pr

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Rupa Schomaker
Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and rather than download and install several, I would like to have > actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/either. > > Thank-you.

recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
Hello: What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, and rather than download and install several, I would like to have actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/either. Thank-you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

RE: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-11 Thread Steve Barr
> Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search email virus scanner spam mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger. The Debian package are rather old versions (3.13 and 3.27) compared to the current version (4.22-5). I download and inst

RE: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
No wait, now I can see it :) hehe. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Nick Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exim virus scanner? Hi, * Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030711 13:59]: > Hello, > > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? Yes, apt-cache does: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 17% apt-cache search exim virus amavis-ng - AMaViS "Next Generation" amavisd-new - Interface between MTA

RE: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
I did not see your search on my box. Just the amavis-postfix. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exim virus scanner? On Fri, 11 Jul 2003

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
check out clamav .. its in testing - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Exim virus scanner? > Hello, > > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:57:22 +0800 "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search exim virus amavis-postfix - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. amavisd-new - Interface between MT

Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Hello, Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qmail and Anti-Virus Scanner Suggestion

2003-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:30:16AM -, Kevin Smith wrote: > I've had a look at the SpamAssassin which for some reason does not start > using the init.d scripts that come with DEB package using apt-get > install spamassassin. You need to enable it. See /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.Debian,

Qmail and Anti-Virus Scanner Suggestion

2003-02-12 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 PowerPC and want to find a decent virus scanner for qmail, whether it be commercial or open source software. However, it needs to run on a PowerPC (Apple G3 beige). I've had a look at the SpamAssassin which for some reason does not start using the init

Re: Virus scanner

2002-12-31 Thread UnKnown
I have use uvscan for a wile and it works, rather haevy but do his job, you could try f-prot dough it's much lighter and there is a free version on the f-prot site. Cheers, rak On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 01:47:58PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I need to install some vi

Re: Virus scanner

2002-12-30 Thread Raymond Gree
you can try CLAMAV http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ Ray Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to install some virus scanner on my linux boxes. Can you help me with the available products.. Thanks Vkumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Virus scanner

2002-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Vivek Kumar wrote: > I need to install some virus scanner on my linux boxes. Can you help me > with the available products.. pick one-two-three from the list http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/AntiVirus c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Virus scanner

2002-12-30 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi, I need to install some virus scanner on my linux boxes. Can you help me with the available products.. Thanks Vkumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya theodore... > With the Nimba virus/worm and the Code Red worm breaking Windows around the > globe, I am nervously waiting for the next Linux Worm. why ??? in the mean time... the script kiddies...with lots of free tme is attacking your PCs with generic scripts that tries to exploit your

RE: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Mullins, Ron
>also sprach Dave Sherohman (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:22:04PM -0500): >> The only virus scanners I am aware of that run under linux are >> designed to scan for Windows viruses in traffic that the linux server >> is handling. McAfee's (NAI) searches for Windows and Unix variants. From the Virus DAT u

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Sherohman (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:22:04PM -0500): > The only virus scanners I am aware of that run under linux are > designed to scan for Windows viruses in traffic that the linux server > is handling. are there any that can interface with postfix packaged as debian? i can't find

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > What is being done to protect against this ? apt-get and security.debian.org. When a new exploit is announced, security.debian.org almost always has an updated deb available within a day and this update is announced on the debian-an

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
ld have to take care creating 2 programs as opposed to > one. > > What is being done to protect against this ? Are there any Linux > virus/ worm scanners for Debian? I don't see much of a use for such a thing. In the windows world, a virus scanner is merely a program that sear

In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Theodore Knab
Hi all, With the Nimba virus/worm and the Code Red worm breaking Windows around the globe, I am nervously waiting for the next Linux Worm. It would be more work to make a Linux virus or worm because the designer would have to take care creating 2 programs as opposed to one. What is being done

impement a virus scanner to postfix

2001-06-07 Thread tim.tim.tim
Title: Nachricht Hello   i am using debian potato with postfix. I like to implement a virus scanner on the mail server. do you have any recommendations ?     thanks in advance     tim

Re: impement a virus scanner to postfix

2001-06-07 Thread Frank Zimmermann
> "tim.tim.tim" wrote: > > Hello > > i am using debian potato with postfix. I like to implement a virus > scanner on the mail server. do you have any recommendations ? > > > thanks in advance > > > tim >From your e-mail adress I asume you&

Re: impement a virus scanner to postfix

2001-06-07 Thread Alvin Oga
> > > Hello > > > > i am using debian potato with postfix. I like to implement a virus > > scanner on the mail server. do you have any recommendations ? > > > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > > tim > > > >From y

Re: Virus scanner

1999-12-22 Thread Randy Edwards
> Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, > downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? There is a native Linux anti-virus program called AVP which I seem to recall will do exactly this (with that said, I might be mistaken though:-). You can reac

Re: Virus scanner

1999-12-21 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Michael, > Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, > downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? I am using AntiVir (www.antivir.de) which is free for private use, but there are Linux versions of McAfee, Sophos, KasperskyLab and more. A good ov

Re: Virus scanner

1999-12-21 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:37:18PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, > downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? Check out http://www.datafellows.com or http://www.mcafee.com They both sell linux-versions th

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