topic Re: About the virus software in Operating System - Linux

About the virus software

peterchu — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:42:20 GMT

Our office's internal network ( mainly is windows NT server ) is infected the virus seriously , I am afraid our RH linux server will also infected the virus ,will the linux get the virus from NT ? how can I check it , is there any virus software for RH linux ? thx.

Re: About the virus software

Shaikh Imran — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:37:30 GMT

Hi,

http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/

OR

http://netsecurity.about.com/b/a/088822.htm

Regards,

Re: About the virus software

shetty — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:59:18 GMT

Hi ,
Linux has Amavis antivirus software which comes in Linux CD.
I hope so linux won't be affected by virus. The percentage of systems(linux)affected with virus is very less.
But you can use this Amavis software to check for virus.

Shetty

Re: About the virus software

Francisco J. Soler — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:41:30 GMT

Hi,
another one:

http://www.kaspersky.com/index.html

or

http://www.kaspersky.com/productupdates?chapter=146300142

Frank.

Re: About the virus software

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:20:03 GMT

IF the virus is designed to attack windows, the answer is no.

It will do nothing to your linux system.

If its in mail it could be in your /var/mail/username files on the Linux box but again can not likely harm the Linux system.

A Linux virus can be written with three or four lines of code.

Symmantec does have a line of products for Linux. Also, if your Linux box is openned up for Samba shares a conventional NAV client like Symmantec or Macafee will be quite effective at scanning the shares.

SEP

Re: About the virus software

Naveej.K.A — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:46:07 GMT

on a Red Hat Linux server!!! nops you won't get affected with virus..

but you can install an antivirus software for it to scan for all the mails for viruses.

http://www.trendmicro.com. Trend micro has a good antivirus product which can be installed on any mail servers to scan for all incoming & outgoing and as well as the mail stores on /var/mail/username

and that is interscan VirusWall for Unix

with best wishes
Naveej