Kernel Question for Anti-Virus

[Chalonec Roger]

Alexander,

Chuckle, chuckle... Not trying to be obscure at all and I do appreciate your great assistance.  For one thing I am simply not exactly sure what I need to protect against and for another, I sometimes have difficulty making the jump from Windowseese to Ferdoraeese.  To complicate matters, I am not server person at all be it Windows, Solaris, or Fedora, I am a data communications person (routers, bridges, gateways, bits, ones and zeros).  Never the less, I have been asked to set up an FTP server and thought this would be a great opportunity to show my server colleagues what can be done without using Microsoft or Solaris.  I think that Linux has its place and want to demonstrate it.  The proof would be an operational service with the idea that if a non-server person can do it then the server experts surely can.  When I finish this server it will be turned over to our Unix server experts, and hopefully with the Gnome GUI our Microsoft server folks would also be able to run the se!
rvers, learn from them, and consider Linux where it makes sense.  I know this is a long message but I think other organization may be experiencing the same problems in trying to get Linux accepted into the data center and elsewhere.  Anyway, I am only running an FTP server and want to protect against any viruses that might affect the Fedora server itself and any that might affect my windows clients once they download the files from the FTP server.

I will definitely look at the link and thanks again

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:29 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Kernel Question for Anti-Virus

Am Do, den 22.04.2004 schrieb Chalonec Roger um 14:52:

> Thanks for the info.  Yes, sorry I did mean Fedora.  I am finding it difficult to see how all
> ClamAv's pieces work and more difficult to install, so though I am looking at ClamAV I
> am also looking a commercial antivirus.  Also management may impose a commercial
> antivirus.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Roger

You have a talent to avoid to state what you want to protect against
virus and worms ;)

For a Sendmail ClamAV combination see the nice howto by Ron Goulard on

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/ron_goulard/clamav

Alexander


-- 
Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl
Sirendipity 16:26:46 up 3 days, 23:12, load average: 0.15, 0.15, 0.22 
                   [ Γνωθι σ'αυτον - gnothi seauton ]
             my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars