[ale] Linux antivirus scanners

[Adrya Stembridge]

Years ago F-Prot offered a free version - not sure if it's still available
that way.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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