[ale] Linux antivirus scanners

[Alex Carver]

Not according to F-prot's site. It's $299 for a single Linux/BSD 
license.  For a Windows system it's $29 for five home licenses and $50 
for ten business licenses.

On 5/21/2013 10:04, Adrya Stembridge wrote:
> 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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