[NTLUG:Discuss] linux antivirus

[Darin W. Smith]

F-Prot works well and is updated often.

www.f-prot.com

Free for home use, I think it's about $300 for corporate (server) use.

They also provide you with a shell script that you can make a cron job to 
go out each night and get updates to the definitions.

The Linux version is command-line only; basically a port of the DOS 
version.

I wouldn't suggest running it on / every night.  What I do is run it on 
seperate filesystems over different days.  For example:
/usr on Monday night
/home on Tuesday night
/var and /tmp and /local (which is my /usr/local and /opt) on Wednesday 
night
etc...

Keeps the scan times down and keeps from killing your load average for an 
extended period.

D!

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:31:15 -0500, <MontyS at videopost.com> wrote:

> Any thoughts/suggestions on anti-virus software for linux?  RAV is about 
> to
> be bought out by MS, so that's a dead end.
>
> I checked Google, found a few options, but none that I have heard of.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Monty
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