Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > Ok, stop laughing. The company I'm consulting at has a client that > insists on putting virus protection on all their boxes. > > We've been trying to install and configure TrendMicro's ServerProtect > Linux product but continue to have problems. Also, I'm not personally > impressed with them in general. > > I found that Network Associates/Mcafee has a command-line product but > we have not evaluated it. There are several other companies that I > have never heard of that make products. > http://www.kaspersky.com > http://www.datafellows.com/ > http://www.ravantivirus.com/ > > How do you know you can trust them? Of course, I searched sourceforge > but did not find anything that was sufficiently mature. > > We don't have a lot of time to evaluate various products so if anyone > has experience with virus protection software for Linux, I would like > to hear about it. rav antivirus has worked great for me, but alas it's being discontinued due to it being purchased by Microsoft. I've started moving to clamav, so far so good. It's easy to setup and use. As far as trusting them, they are open source so it would be hard to hide something there, and the virus database gets updated fairly often, it comes with test files (not real viruses) to make sure it's working properly, and its free as in beer. It's been runing reliably on my server for about 2 months now, and it emails me it's results (a shell script + cron job I set up). It's default setup runs as the clamav user/group so no root issues there. Thats my $0.02 for advice, now for some questions... Why do they need AV on the linux box? Are they using it for a Samba/Email/Web server and just want something scanning there to protect the Win32 Clients? If it's not to protect a Win32 Client machine, then why worry about trusting the software? All it will do is use up CPU cycles, scan through disks, and finally accomplish nothing of value. My main reason for using clamav is to scan files that I would give to others or take to work, that way I won't be blamed for passing anything along to others. If they insist on having AV on all their boxes then don't the Win32 Clients already have an AV package protecting them? Just curious... Chris Frederick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list