Re: On-Demand Anti-Virus Checking Software

From: x y (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 01/25/03 

From: "x y" <levinson_k@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:47:28 -0500

"Hector Santos" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OFo1nILxCHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP11...
>
> "x y" <levinson_k@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:eJVwOAKxCHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP11...
> > Personally, I've always disliked the extra scanners that McAfee and
others
> > made specifically for web and ftp downloads, etc. I usually find them
> > redundant when you have an on-access file scanner.
>
> Can you explain this better?

What I mean is that most of these protocols, such as email, FTP, web
browsing, etc. generally don't infect you with a virus until a file is first
written to your hard drive. So, my on-access scanner would catch it. For
this reason, I felt that attempts by McAfee and other vendors to sell and
run FTP and HTTP virus scanners for the desktop in addition to the regular
on-access scanner were marketing mumbo-jumbo or poor planning. It seemed to
me that all these extra scanners being loaded in memory caused more error
messages and consumption of system resources.

[By comparison, the NAV on-demand scanner has a plugin that will interface
with Outlook email to send an email back to the sender that they are
infected... something that the on-demand scanner can't do alone. So this
plugin does add value... but AFAIK it's done without having to run a
separate scanner .EXE process in memory.

> Symantec offers a
> "corporate edition" with an API for the Network File Server protocol which
I
> think is a Novell thing? I need to read more about it.

I think NFS is a file sharing protocol more often associated with Unix,
though both Netware and Windows can optionally do NFS. I think some
implementations of NFS may have security issues.

Relevant Pages

  • FTP Server time different from computer time
    ... My scanner is networked with my desktop via a router. ... I have an ftp server running on my desktop. ... hand pane is five hours earlier than the computer time. ... If I right click on the file, and go to properties, the FTP Properties has a single tab, "General," which shows "Modified:" and THAT time is the correct time. ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.ftp)
  • Re: On-Demand Anti-Virus Checking Software
    ... my on-access scanner would catch it. ... > run FTP and HTTP virus scanners for the desktop in addition to the regular ... Whether its done via a new process or via API ...
    (microsoft.public.security)
  • Re: di470 copier/scanner to FTP
    ... You need to loosen up and provide anon access for that scanner. ... I duplicated the FTP setup on the new SBS 2003 and changed the di470 IP to point to the SBS but scans do not get to the ftp folder. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Advice on troubleshooting ftp site
    ... 220 Microsoft FTP Service ... 331 Password required for scanner. ... The 'scanner' user is a member of domain users and has R/W rights to the directory that the ftp site is on. ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.ftp)
  • Re: NAI site down?
    ... > scabnner and is a superset of the infectors McAfee/AVERT Stinger targets. ... > make sure the tool gets the McAfee files needed. ... > scanner form Sophos and the Trend Sysclean utility. ... > You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files ...
    (alt.comp.anti-virus)