Hi Collective users of Samba, (does has a nice ring to it eh?) Recently I found a my samba server being infected by win32 viruses. Though it does not affect the server in any way, I do find them to be an annoyance.
I understand also that I can perform "veto" of files like *.exe in smb.conf but find that to be a wee bit restrictive. There are some users who stores valid executables in the shares. http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba-unofficial.html "To prevent access to suspicious files (e.g., those that tend to become infected by virus'), use the following. The last bit prevents access to files with a CLSID in the file extension. veto files = /*.exe/*.dll/*.pif/*.com/*.vbs/*.{*}/" I've also read that there is a sort of a plugin for scanning samba shares using an open-sourced virus scanner www.openantivirus.org but upon looking at it, I noticed that development in this stopped like 2 years ago. (based on last date of file release) Also there is a disclaimer in the project page that asks users to not rely on it. So, collective users of SAMBA, what is the best way to mitigate this issue?? I found out that the virus has even been replicated to my rsync snapshots. :( Cheers, .^. Mun Heng, Ow /V\ H/M Engineering /( )\ Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^ DID : 03-7870 5168 The Linux Advocate -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
