On Thursday 26 Jun 2014, rkwesk_ltsp wrote: > I agree with Joseph, both with the usefulness of virus scanning in > Linux and the choice of clamav as it is gpl and without cost.
AV on Linux is largely about protecting your organisation's email recipients from forwarded attachments. Personally I would ensure your mailserver has AV, both incoming and preferably outgoing. I would also block all the obvious file types, largely because I don't trust ClamAV. ClamAV has never been that great, hardly ever detects even obviously viral mail attachments. But you could run ClamAV on LTSP as well, possibly overnight on /home as a warning system, I doubt it will find much though. You could also set something up to auto-scan inserted USB keys. But after a while of running Linux, you do get a bit complacent about viruses. If you have Wine installed, then there is a larger potential risk, although I have never heard of anyone actually having a virus in Linux or under Wine. We do use Wine, and I just ensure that .wine folder is not user writeable. 8 years with 50 users and certainly never had a problem. Yet. Chris -- Chris Roberts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
