[plug] AV Protection

[Chris Watt]

Thanks for the swift replies,

Where can I get clam AV and also, I assume from your messages that it
runs on both windows and linux?  So I can run it on the server and
each of the clients?

~Cheers




On 7/4/05, simon <simon at plumtek.com> wrote:
> 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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