[plug] AV Protection

[simon]

Chris Watt (something.rotten at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> So, does anyone know of any comprehensive AV programs that are free or
> cheap and work as well as norton?


I used clamav and found it to be pretty good.

You can set it up to scan samba shares dynamically, as well as scanning via
squid.

Just 2 words of warning though - firstly, scanning via squid requires quite a
bulky machine, and secondly, set the maximum filesize to something reasonable
when using it from samba, because clamav appears to have a hard limit and if
your max filesize is set too high you get the situation where samba passes the
huge file for scanning, clamav throws an error, and samba wont let you save
the file to the share....

You can even turn on windows messenger on the clients and have clamav pop an
error up if the file they are saving to the share is infected.

Im not sure how effective it is against 'adware' etc though, and while there's
a windows client it doesnt do active scanning....

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