yeah, I knew that... thats why I use it with amavis to scan the emails for windows workstations connected to linux servers... for that purpose it works great.... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Free Linux Virus scanner.. (Trent Filescan for Linux.) I hope you realise that this is to scan for Windows virii. AFAIK, there are no true *nux virii, due to its design. There are a few worms and trojans, but you're mostly safe as long as you keep your system secure with the latest packages. On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:45:05 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and sent it to the Amavis mailing list > (amavis.org ,amavis is software that will scan all mail on you server for > virus's,, using whatever virus scanner and MTA you are using..) > > I just thought it might be of interest to people on these lists also... > > If not, I apologise for wasting your time... > > rgds > > Frank > > ============================================================================ > = > I thought I'd mention all the links and stuff, so that people can search the > archives here if they want to know how it is done. > > Here is the url to download it, > > ftp://ftp.antivirus.com/products/freetools/ > > (the address listed in the "openantivirus" readme didn't work for me, but > this one did... > download filescanlinux.tar (when you untar it, it has install instructions > and a pdf file) > > > If the scanner install gives you a message that it wont' install because you > don't have redhat release 6, (and you do have a modern linux)I got that > message with mandrake 7.2, edit /etc/issue (create it if you don't already > have one, go into /etc and type 'touch issue') and put the words "release 6" > in it somewhere, you can delete it after install. (thats how the install > program works out what version of linux you have) pretty lame method thinks > me, but its a good thing that its lame if you don't have redhat. > > I have it working flawlessly on Mandrake and I don't think there would be > much problem getting it working on other distro's. > > Here is the link to get the latest engine update, (the version I have now is > "Virus Scanner v3.1") > > http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/ > > Go to the Interscan viruswall table and look in the linux box. > download that tarball. > > open the tarball, and copy the file in it into /etc/iscan, overwrite the > file of the same name that's in there.(it might not be a bad idea to backup > the old one in case there are problems.) > > thats your engine updated to their latest version. > > > If for some reason the web manager pattern update feature doesn't work, (it > didn't for me, think its a isp problem, we have a strange proxy.,) > go here: http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp > choose the linux tarball and you have the latest pattern file. > > Thats it,, This is a very comprhensive scanner for a freebie... much better > then the network associates vscan I was using before,,, (admitadly an old > version). > > the web interface is an exceptional feature... > > > Thats it, I have tested this with my collection of virus's (that have been > emailed to me inadvertantly over the last 2 years.. and it got every one of > them... (used with Postfix and Amavisd and content filtering.) > > > -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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