[plug] AV Protection

[Chris Watt]

I'm already working on getting a linux serve in place :P   But
Directors paranoia makes the protection on everything nescesary




On 7/4/05, Chris Watt <something.rotten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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....
> >
> > --
> > =================
> > Simon Scott
> > simon at plumtek.com
> > mob: 0409113359
> > =================
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> > http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> > Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
> >
>