Windows virus scanner for Samba shares?

John Seth johnseth at phoenixwing.com
Mon Apr 24 20:22:15 MST 2006


I add all my Samba shares and map them so they show up as X:, Y:, Z:, etc
on my windows box, and then I set Norton to scan them.  However, I also
have ClamAV setup on the Linux side, so the shares get scanned twice: once
by Norton, another by ClamAV.

  ~ Tony

-- 
To each their own...



> I use antivir xp
> Seems to work great, I also scan the samba shares from win2003 using
> same program.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
>>Any of you run a Windows virus scanner on your Linux box to scan Samba
>>shares?
>>
>>If so, what do you use? Do you have commercial updates and costs?
>>
>>I see clamav, F-Prot Antivirus, commercial uvscan. And I am currently
>>doing research. I have worked with some antivirus solutions for email
>>filtering. But in this case, I need to scan directories of files, which
>>will also probably involve extracting archives.
>>
>>In addition to running anti-virus on the Linux file server, now an
>>off-topic/Windows question: any suggestions for anti-virus software to
>>install on the Windows Xp and 2000 machines themselves? My customer is
>>using some version of Symantec Norton antivirus.
>>
>>I'd like to be able to setup the Windows boxes to share the same
>>downloaded signature (keep on the Linux samba server). What small office
>>solutions do you use?
>>
>> Jeremy C. Reed
>>


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