Lindows sells virus protection [LWN.net]

Lindows sells virus protection

Posted Feb 20, 2003 20:04 UTC (Thu) by yohan555 (guest, #4253)
Parent article: Lindows sells virus protection

There is a use for virus scanners under Linux!

Let's say one is running a Linux file server that shares files to windows users via samba. Now the client window machine gets infected and the involved virus starts dumping files all over the Linux server (naturally only in directories where the user has write access, but still). We have had a case, where within 10 seconds, the users directory grew by about 1.5 GB in size just because of this. In this case, it would be handy to be able to remove the infected files natively under Linux. (I know, we could also restore from backups, but there still might be a loss of a day or so of data).

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Real antivirus software

Posted Feb 20, 2003 20:27 UTC (Thu) by ranger (guest, #6415) [Link]

And that is why real antivirus software companies sell antivirus software that is intended for servers. Such as Sophos, Trend, MKS, Kaspersky etc.

Plus, there are plugins for samba for real-time scanning, plus you can use almost any scanner with almost any MTA.

Linux servers with windows clients should not be without AV softare, but we will not buy from Lindows ...