I use ClamAV also, with excellent results. It actually STOPPED a virus form one of the many mailing lists I subscribe to. I was actually surprised when the mailing list owner (only one that should be able to post to the list) sent another email apologizing for the VIRUS being sent... I didn't see the message with the virus... Setup of samba-vscan-clamav is not too intuitive; but, it is doable. I'm still struggling with configuring it properly to work with ClamAV and the permissions on the shared files. I think I may have to give ClamAV root privileges to get it working fully with samba-vscan. By default, it will quarantine the file in the /tmp directory. 99.999% of the time it probably is a virus. It also renames the file to vir-?????? ; so you need the logfile to tell what file. But the logfile is very detailed about what happened. Who accessed the file IP, file name, virus found / reported Freshclam (the virus definitions updater) checks for updates every hour. And they do an excellent job of providing real-time updates. Not like Norton who does every Wednesday..... once or twice a month. There are only a few viruses that can be pruned from the file to retrieve the original contents. But, those viruses are usually classified as WORMs that eat away at CPU time or HD space. Most viruses today are more DESTRUCTIVE. Our office has seen at least 3-4 viruses cause problems this year. More than any other year in the past. Protection is the only option when you have valuable data for so many users of various operating systems. We have users using Win95, Win98, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP, Debian Linux. One Windows 2000 Server (that has occasional problems) and now the Fedora Server. James ----- Original Message ----- From: "David L Norris" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:27 PM Subject: Re: Best AntiVirus for Fedora Core 1 | -- | fedora-list mailing list | fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx | To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list |
