[ale] Linux antivirus scanners

[Jim Kinney]

Look at F-prot. Solid product and very fast for scanning entire drives.
$50/yr for 10 licenses.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> Well, this was to be used on the home network so I don't need the extreme.
>
> The Windows desktops don't run their own AV because every AV I've tried
> always has some bloated resident component that drags down the system. None
> of the boxes have the horsepower for a VM so that's out.  Central file
> server isn't here yet, I'm working on it slowly as funds permit (this
> requires a new machine plus disks).  Until then it's just mount and scan
> remotely.  The central scanning machine isn't a file server right now, it's
> just a (old) tinker box.
>
>
>
> On 5/21/2013 08:22, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Better process is to have a scanner on each desktop but ALL files are
>> stored on central server. That makes each desktop a readily replaceable
>> thing and centralizes the AV scan on the bulk of the files. Part 2 is run
>> that fileserver as a samba server and use squid proxy and ClamAV to scan
>> all data entering via WAN as well as email. That narrows your entrance
>> vector to USB and optical disk infection. So unplug data cable on optical
>> drives and disable all USB ports except for keyboard and mouse and bolt a
>> shield around those plugs so they can't readily be removed.
>>
>> Best route is to use Linux boxes at the desktop running a KVM instance of
>> Win7 with only keyboard and mouse on USB. If ANYTHING happens, toss the
>> image and restore from backup and restart. will take about 5 minutes.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>  On 5/21/13 10:47 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>
>>>  a central machine that mounts and scans the file systems of other
>>>> machines with a mix of OSes (Windows being one).
>>>>
>>>>  That's going to mean reading out their entire filesystem over the
>>> network,
>>> right?  Do you really want to do that?
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