On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Rick Meyerhoff wrote:

> The windoze clients also have AV but that does not help the Linux server.
> I guess I'm assuming that Linux AV only looks for Linux viruses and 
> Win32 AV only looks for Win32 viruses, but maybe I'm wrong.
>

Actually there aren't many Linux viruses to worry about. There are
some trojans and such that the AV software will detect, but that
wouldn't be my primary concern. But both versions (Linux & Windows)
will detect viruses/worms/trojans/etc for both platforms. They both
use similar (if not identical) definition files AFAIK.

BTW, you could also remotely scan systems if necessary. We have a few
NetApp filers that don't have native AV software on them. We scan for
viruses nightly via NFS. It isn't real-time protection, but it's
better than nothing.



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