Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Hartnett wrote:
> [...snip...]
> > However, do we need to have some sort of virus package for our systems, if
> > so any recommendations on how it should operate, and perhaps even a
> > package worth looking at?
>
> There are virus scanners for Unix available, but they only scan for PC (DOS,
> Windows, Mac) viruses. There aren't any Linux viruses for them to catch.
> These scanners are designed to be run on a Unix system acting as a server to
> PC workstations, and protect the network file systems in use against infection
> from those PCs.
Can anyone please supply a good pointer to sources for such products? I tried
both the McAfee and AVP pointers from the base post, found little or nothing
about Linux and certainly nothing that clearly indicated a product that can be
safely believed to run on Linux. Or is the solution to take a DOS or Windoze
version and run it under Wine or VMware? (BTW, that reminds me of another
question, about getting data in and out of a VMware app running on Linux, from
native Linux files and.or devices - anyone have insight into such a thing?)
FWIW, my requirement is precisely for the situation Ben describes, I want to
have my Linux box set up as a filtering firewall that filters content as well as
connections, so I have a first line of defense against nasty content trying to
reach
the lame Microsoft bits running on some of the systems inside the firewall. I can
hack the plumbing if necessary but would prefer to find an existing solution that
doesn't require a lot of hacking to solve my requirements.
THANKS!
--Bruce McCulley
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