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Virus Scanning on *nix. Anybody doing it?

Submitted by mcutting on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:02pm

There are reports of viruses out for OS X and some of the linuxes. Should you be doing something about it?

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Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:20pm
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dguitar
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I do virus scanning on my

I do virus scanning on my Linux file servers. Although a virus infecting a Linux box is extremely unlikely, a virus can sit on a Linux box to infect windows machines it comes in contact with.

I did just read that there are some windows viruses that are effecting *nix under WINE.

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Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:26pm
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mcutting
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I have not been scanning mine

I have not been scanning mine since I have no mail servers and very tight security on the boxes. I am however thinking about starting. I do have a scanner on an OS X system that is sitting in my DMZ, but thats all.

I am thinking it is just a matter of time before I might need to add one. I am trying to figure out which ones I should test out before makiing a decision.

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Thu, 11/12/2009 - 9:58am
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mcutting
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Macaffee Client for Linux

Hi All

I now have client software for Linux virus scanner. Hopefully I can get it installed in the next week or so. I will post to let you all know how it worked out.

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