Re: [LUG] Virus scanners??

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jody salt wrote:

> Are there any descent virus scanners for linux??
>
> I was thinking of something that I could set up as a
> cron job to run say 4 times a day, and report back to
> me if anything is dodgy.
>  
There is Clam anti-virus, I run this on my SME Server as a weekly scan 
and also to do e-mail virus checking of incoming and outgoing e-mail.  
Works really well in picking up the e-mail viruses and also stuff thats 
been stored on the samba shares from Windows hosts.

I did find though, since my server has about 140GB of data, it does slow 
it down to a stand-still if I do a daily scan, although I think its 
probably a configuration error and the fact the server is only running 
on an Athlon 850 with 256MB Ram.

Rob


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