Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:52:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.970418134354.24305I-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970418170647.11496H-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote:
> > <snipped some stuff>
> >
> > The list price is $200. I was utterly amazed at how fast it blew through
> > scanning 700 megs of PC files.
> >
> > anyhow...
>
> We run 15 Windows 95 machines off a Samba fileserver here which is a
> P5-133, with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (soon to be upgraded!).
>
> I put the Antivirus demo on it and had similar results, it was
> (obviously?) faster than windows at checking files and it's damn sight
> cheaper, as I'm sure it's possible to check remote hard drives with one
> copy of the server software through smbclient.
Hmmm... I thought smbclient was only good for interactive,
command-line-ftp-like operations. How would you get uvscan to work over
the smbclient connection, such as it is?
> I don't know if McAfee ought to find out that you can check hundreds of
> PC's in this way for the price of 2 copies of the PC software, but I
> thought some of you out there who might not have done this yet, ought to
> try it out. (For more than 10PC's to check it's cheaper to buy a 486 with
> samba to just remotely check them once a day).
>
> It's not as secure, but it'll save your business money.
The potential is certainly there.
For no-cost PC virus scanning I use the shareware version of F-Prot (free
for non-profits, $1 per computer for commecial users). It's not as pretty
as the full-blown F-Prot, but it has the same very highly rated virus
scanning engine.
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