On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Chris Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Helmut Hullen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hallo, Ian, >> >> Du meintest am 26.10.11: >> >>> I just came across an interesting question. Is there a way to do >>> realtime virus scanning on samba 3.4.7 on ubuntu 10.04. >> >> Maybe there is some way. But it may produce only virtual security. >> >> In the last months I've tested many malware mail attachments, p.e. with >> "http://jotti.org";. About 4 hours after sending time perhaps only 10 of >> the 20 scanners which "jotti.org" uses had found a virus, some scanners >> needed more than 24 hours for updating their signature file. >> >> When you use an online scanner than you can be sure it doesn't detect >> really new malware - you have to use some other tool for searching such >> malware. >> >> Viele Gruesse! >> Helmut > > the security provided is for when someone brings in a flash drive from > their infected home computer and copies infected files to teh network > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
That is exactly what happened. The age old adage, "Prevention is better than cure", wish we had prevention in place earlier :) Thanks for the replies, I will definitely be trying the clamfs thing. Regards Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
