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While there are no major Linux viri out in "the wild" at the moment, there are still uses for virus scanning on Linux -for example scanning a shared Samba directory or hooking into Sendmail/Postfix to scan emails bound for Windows boxes. The only one I've ever used is ClamAV, it is very easy to use from the command line and has an update daemon which runs in the background. Check your distro to see if it has packages or try http://freshmeat.net/projects/clamav/ It even runs on Mac OSX - when I scanned a Mac at work a while back it found over a thousand windows viruses! Mostly in the email folders. No surprise there then. There is also another called F-Secure Anti Virus, which runs on Linux but I've never tried it. Charlie -- "Reality is merely a perception, sometimes you just have to look at things in a different way." On Sunday 01 May 2005 18:55, 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. Cheers Jody Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
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