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. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list