On Oct 15, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Brandon Darbro wrote:
James Melin wrote:
What are the current leading anti-virus software vendors that have a product that runs native under linux on z/Series?
I've seen options that require me to NFS mount my disk, and other things. I've seen a few anti-virus probrams that run native, but our management doesn't want a 'small fish' as it were. They are looking for an AV vendor that has some legs... is going to be here in 5 years. That sort of thing.
Recommendations?
TrendMicro Server Protect.
It surpassed our requirements and wishes.
Your management probably isn't going to be interested in ClamAV, since there isn't a vendor per se, since it's an Open Source project--but hey, you'd have the source code. And, uh, I happen to know you could buy third-party support. It works quite well on Debian, and I assume it works fine on the other distros. They seem good about timely database updates. http://www.clamav.net.
However, virus scanning is by its nature CPU intensive, so using your S/390 to do it may not be the right approach; of course that depends on how much CPU you have, how much scanning you need to do, and how badly you don't want to use the network to hand the workload to some other machine.
Adam
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