Using Linux to detect and clean a winbloz lan of virus

From: just me (topsecret@hidden.org)
Date: 01/14/03 

From: just me <topsecret@hidden.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:56:30 GMT

I have a customer that has about 16 winbloz PC's on a lan. All of a sudden
machines on the lan are losing connection, as if the NIC cards have gone
bad. I doubt they are really bad, I am scheduled to go there tonight and
find out.

What I would like to do is find a way to use a Linux box on the lan to scan
the machines for viruses and the like. Is there any such packages like
that for Linux? One that provides security for that trashy OS called
winbloz??

Also, I set this customer up with FloppyFW ( http://zelow.no/floppyfw ) and
that has been working very nicely. But it won't do anything about the
users downloading crap and getting viruses in email, IM and P2P....

Is there a mini distro (that could be made to run on a minimal PC, like and
old 486) to act as a mail system for these people? I was thinking that it
could retreive email for the whole place and then the users get email from
it with their crappy little Outlook Express program. The purpose being
that the Linux mail server would scan and clean email before releasing them
to the internal lan.

This place where I'm talking about is a nightmare, 16 PC's running every
version of winbloz you can imagine, some are company machines, some are
personal property of the users. Some have as many as * EIGHT * of those
stupid IM programs loading at the same time. P2P everywhere, you name it,
it's just plain old KAOS there.

I'm looking to do this as cheep as possible, I don't want to rake this
customer over the coals, I don't do business that way. I get and keep
customers by treating them fairly and charging them VERY fair prices.

Thanks!!

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