Re: Samba server and virus scanning on Linux
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)Date: 05/30/02
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From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:10:33 GMT
"Subba Rao" <sailorn@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We are planning to switch our file server from Windows to Linux's
> Samba server. What our management is concerned is about virus/trojan
> on deposited on to the Samba server? Is there any way to detect
> viruses/trojans on Samba server? Is there real-time protection to
> detect a virus/trojan while a file is being saved from a Win9X/Win2K
> box to the Samba server?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Subba Rao
> sailorn@attglobal.net
Umm. Umm. Kind of/sort of.
Files will not execute automatically on the Samba server the same way they
typically do in a Windows user's environment. They also won't (if configured
reasonably correctly!) have permissions to do damage to the root user's
environment.
A Windows user can still dump a virus, by accident, in a shared directory:
the user should be running a virus checker on their own machine to prevent
this sort of abuse. But detecting the viruses from the Linux side could be
*interesting*. I suspect there are commercial vendors who may have such
products, but most sites rely on the inherent UNIX control of the file
permissions and the user's not sharing dirty needles^H^H^H^H Microsoft Word
documents this way.
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