topic Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux in Operating System - Linux

I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

'chris' — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:07:13 GMT

hi

I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux,
to scan all linux files and maybe use it in combination with a proxy server.

I have squid proxy server:

Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE4

installed on SUSE 8.2

kind regards
chris

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:10:25 GMT

Many moons ago, I asked this very same question.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=77096

There is one open source solution in the thread. I should have given the guy a bunny.

SEP

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Stuart Browne — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:33:08 GMT

There's actually a few available now. The one I use is 'clam' ( http://www.clamav.net/ ). It has many plugins, including sendmail milters, samba AV libs, and can be reasonably easily put into a sequid cache path.

There's documentation and helper applications listed onthe website.

There RPM's available, including one for their pattern auto-updater (called 'freshclam').

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

NiCK_76 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:55:08 GMT

I use McAfee VirusScan Command Line for linux.It's very useful.And You can have a try

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

'chris' — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 04:57:29 GMT

@Nick
but can you scan with McAfee VirusScan Command Line ALL linux files ?

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

NiCK_76 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 05:51:15 GMT

All file? All type of file? what's your mean?
I use it to scans email queue and file on samba everyday.

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

'chris' — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:57:14 GMT

I mean to scan ALL FILES (all types of files) in

/root /etc /home /usr /var /tmp

etc.

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Ross Minkov — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:05:08 GMT

Chris,

Check the following web page for a list of free virus scanners -- http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/#scanners

Personally, I'm using Sophos to scan UNIX/Linux Samba servers, but that's not free.

HTH,
Ross

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

NiCK_76 — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:46:27 GMT

@chris
yes, all files

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

'chris' — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:48:34 GMT

thanks to all !

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Fred Ruffet — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:16:52 GMT

Chris,

Note that linux system itself doesn't need to be scanned. What you need to scan are samba shares, mails, and such files Windows can access. There are no viruses for windows (or nobody told me about).

Regards,

Fred

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Ross Minkov — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:54:35 GMT

Fred wrote:
> There are no viruses for windows ...

Fred,
I am sure you meant to write "There are no viruses for Linux"... ;-)

Chris,
Fred brought up very good point -- you don't need to scan for viruses Linux systems that do not handle files coming from Windows. Usually that means unless your Linux system is a Samba server or a mail server you don't need to scan it for viruses.

Ross

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

'chris' — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:46:14 GMT

my 5 linux server are:
proxy , DNS, samba, print server, webserver

and how can I setup Clam to scan:
mail, proxy and samba files from cron ?

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Ross Minkov — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:30:31 GMT

Chris,

See http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/clamdoc.pdf

There is a good description there on how to configure it.

Regards,
Ross

Re: I'm looking for a free VIRUS SCANNER for linux

Ranjith_5 — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:24:53 GMT

Hi ,

There are more. The documentation also you can find in the same page.

1 http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp

2 http://www.centralcommand.com/index.html

3 http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/antivirus.shtml

4 http://www.e-zest.net/linux-server-antivirus.htm

5 http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=2

Hope This helps.

regards,
Syam