From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 2 14:50:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13174 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13168 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uQL2m-0004KsC; Sun, 2 Jun 96 14:50 PDT Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:50:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: McAfee ViruScan for Linux works on FreeBSD.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Last night I looked at McAfee's FTP site for the latest NT virus scanner (disappointing, the command-line version crashed on me when I ran it), and discovered there is a Linux version available. Today I downloaded it and tried the ELF version on FreeBSD-current (there is also an a.out version). It works great! If anyone is serving DOS files using FreeBSD (or Linux of course), whether through HTTP, NFS, Netware, WFW, or whatever, this is probably a good tool to have. Also, if you have a dual-boot machine, it's probably faster to mount your MSDOS partition and check it (perhaps in a cron job or /etc/daily) from FreeBSD, than to ViruScan it from within DOS! ---Jake P.S. All of these programs check for DOS viruses, as far as I know there are no NT or Linux viruses floating around. :-)