[FC5] ClamAV - Anyone using this?

[Guy Fraser]

On Fri, 2006-31-03 at 07:57 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Is anyone using ClamAV for FC5?  Is there any need to use
> this on FC5?  Just wondered if it is worth installing this
> application to ward of Viruses, Spy-ware, Mal-ware stuff...
> 
...snip...
Good question.

A couple days ago, I discovered I had a couple files with 
viruses after I mapped some samba shares on a windows 
machine. I notice some "strange" disk and network activity
and when I ran top, smbd was fairly active. I toggled 
my KVM over to the windows machine and MacAfee was scanning
the mapped drives. I did not think it would scan mapped 
drives, but was interested to see what it would find. The 
next morning it had finished scanning the 800GB of shares 
and found two files, one jpeg and one zip file. They were 
both from some stuff I had downloaded a years ago for my 
Windows box, and was archiving it on the Linux box.

I suppose that is not too bad having two files out of 
800GB with some dating back to the mid 80's. :^0
You could probably guess that I am a pack rat. :^P

Back On Track - It would appear that if you share files 
with any windows machines, which is likely, it would be 
prudent to have antivirus software that runs natively 
on the Linux machine to ensure that infected files are 
not propagated to machines they can infect.