antivirus

[Daniel Bye]

On Thu, 14 October, 2004 1:40 pm, metallarch said:
> Does freebsd support any antivirus programs(server) for windows computers?

clamav (in the ports, naturally) can be used to scan mail (I use it with
Exim and the exiscan patch - works very well), and can be used as the av
scanner for samba-vscan (also in the ports), which provides on-access
virus scanning of samba shares.

It can also be used from the command line to do ad-hoc scanning as and
when you need it.

You will need to run a client program on the Windows machines to do
on-access scanning of local file systems.

There are many other solutions - I guess your best bet is to try a few and
see how you get on.  The appeal of clamav to me is that it is free, and
stable.

HTH,

Dan

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