[K12OSN] *AntiVirus Solution*

Andrew Fisk andy at spitcomp.com
Mon Dec 12 15:46:34 UTC 2005


I have clam and clamwin deployed extensively and it works very well  
-- as I mentioned last time around I have not bothered with AV for OS  
X (Sophos quit working when I upgraded to 10.4 frankly it wasn't  
worth the performance hit to combat a non existent problem).

I think you could deploy clam and be confident that your network will  
be secure -- even with a bunch of windows machines, clam will kill  
any virus(s) on the server before they can do any damage.

Sophos really does have an option to move (or delete) infected files,  
more of an issue on the mac is it's desire to mount and scan any  
volume that has ever been mounted on that machine -- if you get 30+  
desktops all trying to scan a network volume you can imagine what  
that does for both network and server performance!


Thanks

Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
441 Beaver Street
Suite 202
Sewickley, PA 15143
Phone (412) 749-0162
Fax: (412) 749-0203
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com

On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Robert Mortimer wrote:

>> All,
>>
>> Do any of you use ClamAV or KlamAV as your sole antivirus solution in
>> your organizations? We have used Symantec, which we left, and are
>> currently using Sophos Anti-Virus since it runs on Macs, Windows and
>> Linux. However, Sophos doesn't handle infected files very well.  
>> Instead
>> of quarantining the files it leaves them where they are and just  
>> informs
>> the administrator that the computer/user has an infected file. Not an
>> acceptable solution for our environment.
>
> The "on access" Sophos notification bans access files it does not  
> perform a
> scan/cleanup.
> Sophos can be set to do a scheduled scan, this does provide clean up
> actions.
> Sophos can also be used to clean incoming e-mail streams and reject  
> infected
> mail.
> (we were using it with sendmail/Mime-defang)
> On access is useful as is stops propagation between full scans (it  
> is not
> provided by Clam under windows but can be provided using clam SAMBA  
> on your
> file server).
>
> Note people who activate an "on access" scan event may not (should  
> not) have
> the permissions needed to move viruses about our network, any clean  
> up for
> "on access" would have to be done under these permissions. If that  
> includes
> sending to quarantine that implies access to you quarantine store, you
> really do not want to go there. That is why you set up correct  
> permissions
> and use them for a scheduled scan.
>
>
>>
>> So again, have/do any of you use ClamAV/KlamAV as your sole antivirus
>> solution and how is it working for you and do you recommend it for
>> heterogeneous networks? Any comments or suggestions from anyone on  
>> this
>> is welcome and appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>> --
>> Paul VanGundy
>> Information Technology Director
>> Epping High School
>> Epping Middle School
>> P: 603.679.5472
>> F: 603.679.2966
>> vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us
>>
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