On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de<ra%2Bcentos at br-online.de> > wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm sure there are plenty of people that can give Ralph detailed > information > > about using it efficiently. > > Sorry, I do not want to know how to "use clamav efficiently", I am just > wondering what good clamav will do on a server, as there aren't really > any hooks into file writing or reading. Sure, I can hook up clamav into > my email stream or into my proxy on that machine for filtering out > requests to people who use windows boxes behind those. > > But I do not understand which sense clamav makes on a linux server, if > there are no hooks into the kernel (I know about dazuko, but a) we don't > ship it and b) last time I looked at it I couldn't get it to run > properly without a *huge* speed penalty). > > As far as I know there is no AntiVirus solution for Linux which works > the same as all the solutions under Windows do. And if you do not have > real time scanning on a server/workstation, an anti virus scanner > doesn't do you any good, as the time frame for attacks is just too > large. Either you get it on the first shot or you can just forget about > it. > > So again: If you want to be PCI-DSS compliant - what's the use of > clamav? > > Ralph > > Check out BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com -matt http://www.sysadminvalley.com http://www.beantownhost.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090122/0c3c020f/attachment-0005.html>