Re: Samba server and virus scanning on Linux

From: Matthias Pfeifer (pfemat@web.de)
Date: 05/29/02 

From: Matthias Pfeifer <pfemat@web.de>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:26:20 +0200

Shaun Marolf wrote:

>There are several commercial AV programs for Linux that also detect Windows
>based viruses and clean/remove them as well. I'm current using RAV on my
>Linux server and I will probably buy it. It works well and has Hueristic
>capability. (which is what you need) Down side with Linux AV systems is that
>they take forever to scan your system but you can set most of them to scan
>only the directories you want.
>
>--Shaun
>
>"Subba Rao" <sailorn@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:3cf51dba.454433@news1.attglobal.net...
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>[...]
>>Thank you in advance.
>>
>>Subba Rao
>>sailorn@attglobal.net
>>
>>

You could also give www.hbedv.com a try, its a german (comercial) product. The Linux Version of the Program is for free and concerning to their ads the opensource their "engine" next days.

Greetings
Matthias

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