Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:15:29 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On-access AV scanning Message-ID: <20120727191529.01222988@AMD620.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20120727114729.GC4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <20120727104308.GA4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207271249160.20428@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120727110019.GB4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207270715360.9614@nber9.nber.org> <20120727114729.GC4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:47:29 +0100 Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:19:45AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:04PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >>>Are there any current options available to support on-access > > >>>antivirus scanning on FreeBSD? why should it be available when it is not needed? > > >>> > > >>FreeBSD doesn't need this as there are no viruses on that system. Ok, this is a bad reasoning. > > > > Thanks, Daniel. I have looked at Kaspersky, and various others, but > the main sticking point, as I see it, is that there is no on-access > scanning capability in any of the AV packages available for FreeBSD. You will not find them. The scanners running on FreeBSD are looking for Windows pests. > It's not essential to build my case, but it would certainly > strengthen it. I use ClamAV on my home mail server, and it works > well. I have also tested it out on a desktop machine to run > on-demand scans, and it works just fine, and doesn't impose so much > of a load as to be a nuisance. > Does it scan for FreeBSD viruses? I would wonder. > We have had a couple of virus outbreaks recently, so this is quite a > high profile concern around here at the moment. The CIO is from a > technical background, so I might well be able to convince him of > FreeBSD's strengths as a very secure system, but I will still need to > accede to the IT policy, sadly - no way around it. You will have to give it a miss then. The security concepts of FreeBSD are 100% different. They will never match this kind of policy. Erich
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120727191529.01222988>