[CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Aug 15 12:14:03 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 12:47 +0100, Nux! wrote: 
> On 14.08.2012 14:06, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 07:28 +0100, Nux! wrote:
> >> On 13.08.2012 22:46, Gregory Machin wrote:
> >> > Hi.
> >> > Thanks for the feed back.
> >> Why not Clamav?
> >> It has othe n-access thingy as well.
> >> http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/node21.html
> > "you shouldn't run Dazuko on production systems"
> > But, if your clients are Windows boxes via Samba, you can perform
> > on-demand file access via Samba + CLAMAV using a VFS module.  This 
> > works
> > very well.  Then files detected to contain malware cannot be read or
> > saved, and the administrator can be notified.
> > I don't think that really helps the LINUX desktop however.
> Thanks for the tip with the VFS. Not much of a Samba user here, but 
> definitely good advice for the future.
> Searching a bit reveals multiple ways of using this VFS feature; do you 
> have a recommended way of doing it?

The examples are pretty straight-forward.  Just make sure you are
looking at docs for samba-virusfilter and not the older docs for
samba-vscan.
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/11/samba-vscan-is-dead-long-live-samba.html>
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/11/samba-virusfilter-013-released.html>


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