topic Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ? in Operating System - Linux

Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 02:28:23 GMT

Hi all,

I am in search for an nice Anti-virus/worm product (really!) available for Redhat Linux 7.X, 8.X, RHEL versions and for other unix servers.

It may be commercial as well as free.

Thanks in advance
Vijay

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Mark Grant — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 02:38:34 GMT

There is one you can check here

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

I'm not sure you will find one to protect against worms though. A good software fixing and patching policy is much better here.

Remember that most Linux anti-virus software is to strip viruses out of Windows e-mails.

Though not immune to viruses it is easy design your systems so that any virus would have very limited effect.

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:40:31 GMT

you have a very nice (not free) piece of soft from
www.trendmicro.com
The trial is here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/file-server/sp-linux/evaluate/trial.htm

or there's a free antivirus here:
http://www.ravantivirus.com/

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Jerome Henry — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:04:06 GMT

A classical solution is inflex :
http://pldaniels.com/inflex/index.html

If you are looking for a comercial solution, you wmy try vexira
http://linux.tucows.com/preview/269165.html
or kaspersky
http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html

hth

J

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Brian Gannon — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:51:52 GMT

I'd go with clamscan.
It has a dameon that constantly updates the definitions.. I've been using it in my sendmail config for a year now.. I've caught over 50,000 viruses so far..

And it's free ;)(as in beer)
http://www.clamav.net

Brian

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Seth Parker — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:41:41 GMT

Vijay,

Since no one else mentioned it, NAI/McAfee has UVSCAN, which is their command line scanner for UNIX. It has its own engine, which I know works on RH 7.3, but it uses the same DAT files as the other NAI/McAfee products. However, you have to script the downloading of DAT updates, so that adds some to the initial install burden.

Regards,
Seth

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:30:32 GMT

Been there.

Done that.

Got my own thread.

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

SEP

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Seth Parker — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:42:42 GMT

In regards to SEP's thread, AMAVIS isn't actually a virus scanner, it's a tool that allows mail to be passed through the virus scanner(s) of your choice. That said, it's pretty cool. We use the amavisd-new tool, which is a separate branch off the base amavis source. It's worked well for us, but we a low volume of mail through our server.

Regards,
Seth

Re: Linux Anti-Virus products ?

Mario Stargard — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:12:16 GMT

We are using Sophos on Linux and Tru64. I've set up some scripts to automatically update, scan and email problems.

It's a pretty good scanner. Lacks fine include/exclude granularity, but nothing a little shell trickery can't fix.

Mario