Hi, this is a little off-topic but I know there are many people using Windows clients within Skolelinux and Debian-edu networks. I have been using the GPL virus scanner ClamAV on a linux mail server to scan email on a small network for over a year now. This has been very successful, it has yet to miss a single virus and has caught 86.
Recently, I noticed ClamWin. This is a Windows-based anti-virus program based on the ClamAV technology/database with a GUI for client machines much like normal desktop anti-virus systems. It appears to be quite good. It can plug into Outlook (which nobody should be using!) and Windows Explorer and can be set to run scans of single files or entire systems. It also has automatic updating. http://www.clamwin.com/ Unfortunately it is still missing one (in my opinion) critical feature, that of "on-access scanning". It doesn't yet scan every file automatically as the user accesses it. It can do this if running on Linux/BSD so I imagine samba shares can be scanned on-access. As has been said before, it isn't really useful currently to have anti-virus for linux workstations. Anyway, if you don't have anti-virus for your Windows machines, this might be worth trying. If they implement on-access scanning it will hopefully make a very useful and cost effective replacement for proprietary anti-virus software. Gavin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
