[H-GEN] Anti-Virus Recommendations?

[Peter Arnold]

David Harrison wrote:

> 
> G'day,
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations for (preferably free, preferably open
> source! though commercial software is fine) virus scanner software for
> Linux? I'm after something that is updated relatively regularly and can scan
> for viruses on a Linux box which contains a file archive of largely Windows
> executables. Searching within archives would be a huge plus as well.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> -- david
> 
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My preference is for calmav which seems to have consistent develpoment and is used by a number of other technologies. The web site is www.clamav.net (or is that .org?... not sure. One of them is a porn site, the other is clamav :).

Other technologies it's used for in include several email scanners (mimedefang suports it), some sort of integration with samba for file scanning (samba-vscan) and web proxy scanning (via mod_clamav http://software.othello.ch/mod_clamav/).

I've only used it in mimedefang so far (at home) and find it quite acceptable although I'm not a big windoze user.

Cheers
Peter Arnold
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