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Ow Mun Heng wrote: | <<--snip-->>
|> |>1) Usually, you need to isolate the computer infected from all outside |>connections... this includes the NET. To keep spreading down |>to a minimum. | | | This is a SAMBA file server.. The virus' not going anywhere or isn't | gonna affect the server. (win32 virus)
I wasn't talking about the server.... I was talking about the users computer. The longer they are connected to others the more damage they can cause.
<<--snip-->> | | |>6) Try to find out how the virus got on the system. This is research |>intensive... FIND a solution to keep it from happening again. | | | Actually, that's easy. It's a Samba File server. Users connect to it | to share and save files. One of the users' PCs got infected by the | virus and since that person has write access to the server, the | Virus just migrated there. I'm trying to research into how to get | some kind of anti-virus agent on my Linux Server.
Check out samba-vscan this is a module to samba that allows virus scanners for Linux to work. There are many flavors out there, most are free. I use ClamAV and like it very much. They also include an email filter that scans for viruses in email as they arrive.
| | |>7) Prepare for the next virus! | | | Yeah.. Just for the benefit of my windows users.
Actually, for the benefit of all your users. Linux viruses are rare; but, they do exist. Any virus can do a lot of damage to their machine and yours, regardless of OS. Remember, you are part of a BIGGER WORLD when you connect to the NET.
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