[ale] Linux antivirus scanners

Adrya Stembridge adrya.stembridge at gmail.com
Tue May 21 13:25:08 EDT 2013


That makes sense - when I last used it (2006) they were pushing commercial
licenses pretty heavily.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> 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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