Re: Antivirus
From: srm (user_at_example.net)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:10:06 +0200
Mahler wrote:
> You don't need any antivirus software for Linux.
>
> The software out there you can buy for Linux scans outgoing files for
> Windows viruses that might be sent to a Windows machine out in the world.
Wrong. Anti-virus software is useful for scanning incoming email before
it gets near any Windows machines.
My daily-driver Linux machine (SuSE 8.2) also operates as a mail server
for other machines on the network (Fetchmail, Procmail, Postfix,
Qpopper). One of those other machines is a WinXP box. While it is
equipped with AVG, that software doesn't integrate all that well with
Mozilla Thunderbird (obviously I'm not going to run Outlook or OE on
that machine).
I installed Amavis and AntiVir on the Linux box. I also installed a cron
job to update the AntiVir files each night. This is working really well.
I wrote a short Perl script to log what's happening - here's the current
output:
Total Viruses Logged (since 29-07-2004) : 266
Viruses Logged in past week............ : 224
Virus types logged .................... : 10
Bagle.AA : 5
Bagle.AA.HTA : 2
Bagle.z.vbs : 1
Funlove.4099 : 1
Mydoom.m : 6
NetSky.C : 3
NetSky.C.4 : 1
Netsky.D.Dam : 2
NetSky.P : 243
RunMe.Dldr.1 : 2
Virus types logged in past week........ : 5
Bagle.AA : 3
Funlove.4099 : 1
NetSky.C.4 : 1
NetSky.P : 217
RunMe.Dldr.1 : 2
Worth doing, I think.
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srm
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