Thanks for the info on (the soon to be assimilated into the Windoze collective) RAV and clamav. > Thats my $0.02 for advice, now for some questions... > > Why do they need AV on the linux box? Are they using it for a > Samba/Email/Web server and just want something scanning there to protect > the Win32 Clients? Aside from a general fear of viruses, I think that the Linux box will be on a LAN that has another box or boxes that have nothing to do with our system but may have some sort of Internet connection. To tell you the truth, I don't know much about their network and *my* client would like to standardize on a Linux AV tool for all of *their* clients. So I'm really asking about Linux AV in general and not really for a particular end-user, although there is currently only one user asking for it, but thanks for asking. > If it's not to protect a Win32 Client machine, then why worry about > trusting the software? All it will do is use up CPU cycles, scan *I* brought up the trust issue, not the client. I'm sorry that I did not make that clear in the original post. My point is that we are talking about security software so we would want to use a tool from an organization that is trustworthy. Open source is one way to be trustworthy and profit motive *can* be another. Please don't hijack this thread for a discussion of this issue! > through disks, and finally accomplish nothing of value. My main reason > for using clamav is to scan files that I would give to others or take to > work, that way I won't be blamed for passing anything along to others. > > If they insist on having AV on all their boxes then don't the Win32 > Clients already have an AV package protecting them? The windoze clients also have AV but that does not help the Linux server. I guess I'm assuming that Linux AV only looks for Linux viruses and Win32 AV only looks for Win32 viruses, but maybe I'm wrong. > > Just curious... Just be glad you're not a cat ;-) > > Chris Frederick -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list