From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 16:54:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05567 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05549 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00402; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:27:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807292327.TAA00402@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: are the virus-apps (scanners) available ? In-Reply-To: <35BF5275.61C90C21@swn.de> from Barry Grotjahn at "Jul 29, 98 05:48:53 pm" To: flashlight@swn.de (Barry Grotjahn) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barry Grotjahn wrote: > Where can I find good antivirus-apps for FreeBSD ? > > Barry There are some Unix virus scanners, but: a) Unix is not susceptible directly. b) Boot sector or Win viruses can ruin even a Unix partition c) There is a bonafide use for scanners. The use for c) is to scan DOS/Win files that are being served via samba to DOS/Win clients. If there's one for FreeBSD, I don't know of it, though. Given the prevalence of samba servers, some commercial wares sellers are missing some sales. If you would like a pgm form FreeBSD that will detect "infection" (by a virus or otherwise) of critical system files (or anything else, actually), look into tripwire, for which there is, IIRC, a port and/or package. Unix security usually moves in directions different than the "virus"; our problems are as serious, but involve other considerations. Dave -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message