Mini-FAQ: "antivirus software for Linux/Unix"
Version: 1.10 - pre 3
Maintainer: Rainer Link
Release date: 10/10/2000
http://www.openantivirus.org/
1. About this mini-FAQ
This mini-FAQ informs you about currently available antivirus software
and content filtering tools for Linux and other Unix versions.
2. Overview
All listed products do not only search for known Linux-viruses (such
as Staog or Bliss), but also for known viruses for DOS/Windows, macro
viruses or generally-speaking malicious code.
According to the producers, the Linux-version of their av-software
uses the same scanning engine as it is used at the Windows-version.
The product list is divided in four sections:
* on-demand scanner
* on-acces scanner
* virus protection / content-filtering at the eMail gateway
* virus protection / content-filtering at the Internet gateway
2.1 on demand-scanner
2.1.1 F-Secure Antivirus for Linux
Producer/Developer: F-Secure Corp., Finland
Platform: Intel
Download: http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/
Version: 4.08
Size: approx. 1.6 MB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: <unknown>
Comments: According to Ari Hypponen a trial copy is not available
yet on the web site.
2.1.2 H+B EDV AntiVir/X
Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany
Platfom: Intel
Download: http://www.hbedv.com/
Version: 6.02.00, 15 June 2000
Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB
contact person: Martin Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pricing: AntiVir/X is freeware for private use, but it is recommended
to register the software via eMail. For commercial use, please
contact H+B EDV
Comments: TkAntVir, a GUI written witk Tcl/Tk is available from
www.geiges.de/sebastian/
2.1.3 NAI Virus Scan (uvscan) for Unix (Linux)
Producer/Developer: Network Associates, USA
Platform: FreeBSD, AIX, HP UX, Linux, SCO, Solaris
Download: http://www.nai.com/asp_set/buy_try/try/products_evals.asp
Version: 4.7 (licensed version)
Size (compressed): approx. 3,7 MB
contact person: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: should be part of the "Total Virus Defense", please ask
their sales team.
Comment:
2.1.4 Sophos Sweep for Linux
Producter/Developer: Sophos UK / Sophos US
Platform: Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Linux (Intel/Alpha), SCO OpenServer
(Intel),
SCO UnixWare (Intel), Digital Unix (Alpha), AIX (PowerPC),
FreeBSD (Intel), HP-UX (HP-PA)
Download: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/eval/savunix.html
Version: 3.36, August 2000
Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB
contact person: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: In Germany it is freeware for private use, but it is
recommended to register it by email, phone or fax. For commercial
use please ask the sales team ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Comment:
2.1.5 Trend Micro FileScan for Linux
Producer/Developer: Trend Micro, USA
Platform: Intel
Download: http://www.antivirus.com/free_tools/linux
Version: 1.0
Size (compressed): approx. 2,5 MB
contact person: <unknown>
Pricing: free of charge (non-commercial use only)
Comments: developed for RedHat 6.x
2.1.6 CyberSoft VFind Security ToolKit (VSTK) for Linux
Developer: CyberSoft Inc., United States
Platform: DEC Alpha, SCO UnixWare/Unix, Sun Solaris/SunOS, Unisys,
Linux
Download: an evaluation copy is available upon request
Version: Current VSTK157
Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: see http://www.cyber.com/products/masterprice.html
Comments: The VFind Security ToolKit is a suite of computer security and
antivirus tools.
2.7.1 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP)
Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia
Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI
Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp
Version: 3.0 - build 133
Size (compressed): 200 KB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: commercial
Comments: needs antivirus database (AVC) files
2.1.7.2 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) Daemon for Linux
Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia
Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI
Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp
Version: 3.0 build 133
Size (compressed): 204 KB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: commercial
Comments: needs the antivirus database files
2.1.8 Computer Associates InoculateIT (inocucmd) for Linux
Developer: Computer Associates, USA
Platform: Linux, Solaris
Download: ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/getbbs/solaris.eng/
ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/getbbs/linux.eng/
Version: 4.0
Size (compressed): 1.5 MB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: <unknown>
Comments: according to README.txt for RedHat 6.0 and above,
but runs also on my SuSE 6.2
2.2 on-access scanner
2.2.1 H+B EDV AVGuard/Linux
Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany
Platfom: Linux
Download: ftp://ftp.antivir.de/linux/
Version: 0.9 beta
Size (compressed): approx. 120 KByte
contact person: Martin Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pricing: <unknown>
Comments: AVGuard/Linux provides resident, on-access virus-protection.
Currently it works only with kernel 2.0.36-38. Needs AntiVir/X
2.2.2 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) Monitor for Linux
Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia
Platform: Linux
Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp
Version: Beta 1 (0.01)
Size (compressed): 20 KB
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pricing: GPL
Comments: AVP Monitor is a patch for kernel 2.2.x series, it
needs AVP Daemon. It is now included in the AVPDaemon package.
2.3 virus protection / content-filtering at the email gateway
2.3.1 H+B EDV AvGate
Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany
Platfom: Linux
Download: ftp://ftp.antivir.de/linux/
Version: 6.02.00.00
Size (compressed): approx. 30 KByte
contact person: Martin Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pricing: freeware (private use)
Comments: AvGate is a stmp store-and-forward proxy with virus scanning
capabilities. Needs AntiVir/X
2.3.2 AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner
Developer: Christian Bricart & AMAViS-Dev-Team
Platform: Linux, SPARC, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and more
Download: http://amavis.org/
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6006
Version: AMaViS 0.2.1-pre1
AMaViS-Perl-7
supported MTAs: AMaViS: sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim
AMaViS-Perl: sendmail, qmail, postfix
supported scanner: Sophos Sweep, KasperskyLab AVP, H+BEDV AntiVir,
NAI VirusScan, Trend FileScanner, F-Secure AV,
CAI InoculateIT, CyberSoft VFind
Size (compressed): approx. 100 KB
contact person: Christian Bricart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pricing: none
License: GPL
Comments: AMaViS scans email attachments by executing
one or more av program(s).
2.3.3 Mail::IspMailGate
Developer: Amar Subramanian & Jochen Wiedmann
Platform: <all Perl platforms>
Download http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-IspMailGate
Version: 1.1013 alpha
supported MTAs: sendmail
supported scanner: basically all (do-it-yourself)
Size (compressed): approx. 49 KB
Pricing: none (?)
License: GPL or Artistic License
2.3.4 Qmail-Scanner (formerly scan4virus)
Developer: Jason Haar
Platform: <all Perl platforms?>
Download: http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/
Version: 0.92
supported MTAs: qmail
supported scanner: Sophos Sweep, NAI VirusScan,
Trend FileScanner, H+B EDV AntiVir,
KasperskyLab AVP, F-Secure AV
Size (compressed): approx. 22 KB
Pricing: none
License: GPL
2.3.5 Inflex
Developer: Paul L Daniels
Platform: Linux, Unix
Download: http://www.spyda.co.za/inflex/
Version: 1.0.5c
supported MTAs: sendmail
supported scanner: F-Secure AV, Sophos Sweep,
NAI VirusScan
Size (compressed): approx. 24 KB
Pricing: none
License: GPL
2.3.6 WMailScanner
Developer: Philippe Plantier
Platform: <unknown>
Download: http://messel.emse.fr/~pplantie/wmailscanner/
Version: 0.0.2
supported MTAs: sendmail
supported Scanner: <unbekannt>
Size (compressed): approx. 15 KB
Pricing: none
License: GPL
2.3.7 Kaspersky Lab AVP for sendmail
Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia
Platform: Linux, FreeBSD
Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp
Version: 0.0.4-1, 0.0.3
supported MTAs: sendmail
Size (compressed): 150 KB
Pricing: <unknown>
License: commercial
2.3.8 Kaspersky Lab AVP for qmail
Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia
Platform: Linux, FreeBSD
Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp
Version: 0.0.4-1, 0.0.3
supported MTAs: qmail
Size (compressed): <unknown>
Pricing: <unknown>
License: commercial
2.3.9 Mailchecker
Developer: Ragnar Kjorstad, Eivind Kjorstad
Platform: anyone on which python runs
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=2306
Version: 0.1
supported MTAs: sendmail
Size (compressed): <unknown>
License: GPL
Comments: currently only development release available
2.3.10 Protector
Developer: Christopher M. R. Lowth
Platform: <unknown>
Download: http://www.lowth.com/protector/
Version: 1.0
supported MTA: sendmail
Size (compressed): 166 KB
License: GPL
2.3.11 Content Filtering Tools (mostly GPL'ed)
http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/milter/ (sendmail libmilter stuff)
http://www.barrett.com.au/Software/sendmail/index.html (sendmail
libmilter stuff)
http://adsl-nolte1.rz.rwth-aachen.de/progs/vbs/ (vbs - make mail
attachments unexecutable)
http://mailtools.anomy.net/ (Anomy mail tools - email sanitizer)
http://www.missing.net/vbscript.php3 (Sendmail VBScript Attachment
Tweaker)
ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/ (Mail filter for exim)
http://www.magix.com.sg/Users2/sweeheng/macofida/index.htm (mail content
filtering daemon)
http://www.inetfido.com/qscan/ (qscan - Sendmail Queue Scanner)
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/ (MIME Defanger - sendmail
8.10.x or later)
http://people.oven.com/bet/mailfilt/index.html (Mailfilt)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sendmail-milter/ (sendmail Perl filter)
http://www.sendmail-filter.sbu.ac.uk/ (Ray's Mail Filter - sendmail
8.10.x or later)
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5609 (Unix Mail Filter)
2.4 virus protection / content filtering at the Internet gateway
2.4.1 Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall for Linux
Producer/Developer: Trend Micro, USA
Platform: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux
Download: http://www.antivirus.com/
Version: 3.1a
Size: approx. 7 MB
contact person: <unknown>
Pricing: <unkonwn>
Comments: developed for RedHat 6.x - a version
for SuSE Linux is currently developed
2.4.2 Viromat
Developer: Ralph Meyer
Platform: Linux and others
Download: http://www.hycomat.co.uk/viromat/
Version: 0.002pre alpha
Size: 12 KB
License: GPL
Comments: viromat is a http virus scanner/wrapper
2.4.2 Content Filtering Tools
httpf - a web security proxy: http://httpf.sourceforge.net/
muffin - WWW Filtering System: http://muffin.doit.org/
WebFilter - http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/NoShit/
ByProxy - http://www.besiex.org/ByProxy/index.html
3. Contacting the author
If you have questions, suggestions or if you find an error in this
document, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thanks!
This Mini-FAQ is part of The OpenAntiVirus Project:
http://www.openantivirus.org/
4. Distribution of this document
This document may be distributed freely via eMail, in Newsgroups or
be put on a web-site, if it is garantied that it is not altered in
any way. If you put this mini-faq on your web-site, I would be pleased
if you put a link to http://www.openantivirus.org/ on your site, too.
(c) by Rainer Link, 1999-2000 - All rights reserved.
Thanks to SuSE Germany for funding my work.
All information in this document are provided "as it is".
There is no warranty, that it is faultless or that
all (known) products are listed. All trademarks are respected.
Please apologize any misspellings for the reason that English is not
my native-language.
--
Eko Sulistiono
MIKRODATA & AntiVirus Media
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