From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 10:46:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21335 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [207.95.42.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA21321 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.its.enc.edu (dingo.its.enc.edu [207.95.222.250]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10735; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:47:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:52:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens X-Sender: owensc@dingo.its.enc.edu To: Stephen Roome cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote: > > > > > > 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. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -------------------------------------------------------------------------