-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim:
For OS X the clamav engine works with the interface provided by clamXav. You can take a look at that page here: http://www.clamxav.com/ Whenever I'm in OS X, I never fail to be amazed at all the windows virii, trojans and God knows what attempting to enter via email which clamxav consistently stops and warns me of. As I can set clamxav to scan particular folders such as files appearing on my desktop (whether they be a new flash drive or downloaded file, I don't have to worry if I missed something because the email clients I use aren't running at the moment. As much as I appreciate the Mac the real powerhouse doing all the real work is BSD Unix. So not only does Clamav run in OS X, one can make the statement that if clamav works under OS X it will also work under BSD. I can also state that I run a rather specialized variant of Linux uniquely designed for PowerPC systems known as Yellow Dog Linux. Clamav runs fine there to and has done so for years. Here's the neat thing though, as YDL runs across a very wide family of PowerPC systems, this also means that whatever can run YDL (and this includes the PS3), can also run clamav. As appealing as that may be, what is really enticing is the email client Claws Mail, which upon compilation from source will run very smoothly within YDL. Beyond that there is a plug-in for Claws Mail which talks to the clamav engine utilizing, amongst other things, the new anti-phishing technology which was recently built into the engine. This plugin, as well as others, are active and fully available within YDL. Claws Mail does work within Windows, just as clamav does. In fact, if Windows users would retire whatever the email client they have for Claws Mail they could be liberated from most of the problems they now endure. The clamav plugin within Claws Mail is standard together with OpenPGP and other plugins; interested parties can refer here for more details: http://www.claws-mail.org/ On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:18:10 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/16/2007 02:52:34 PM: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello all. > > > > > > We've had some consultant make the spurious claim that Clam AV > > only scans for 'windows viruses' and is really only useful for > > 'scanning email'. > > > Despite the fact that I know this to be patently false, is there > > documentation out there I can slap him with that clearly indicates > > that the virus > > > defs are for any platform, Linux, windows, Unix, Mac OS X, etc. ? > > I can prove that it scans the file system just by sprinkling a few > > test viri things > > > out in the file system. Hard to argue with that sort of evidence. > > > > > > The rest of it, well, now it's personal. > > > > > As much as I like ClamAV and rely on it for scanning mail before it gets > > to our Exchange server, I wouldn't use it as my primary Windows > > solution. There are too many hooks necessary to get real-time scanning, > > internal Exchange scanning, and so on. The proper thing, in my opinion, > > is to build a multi-layer defense, using ClamAV on the MX servers > > checking incoming mail, and then using a different product on the > > Windows machines. This way, you get two different teams working on > > malware definitions, two different ways of looking a things, and two > > different timing cycles to make it more likely one of them will catch > > whatever's coming in. > > > > In our case, we use ClamAV on the MX servers and run Symantec Corporate > > on the Windows servers, Windows desktops, and the Exchange server. > > > > I certainly understand the personal bit. Isn't it amazing how they'll > > pay attention to an outsider and discount everything you say? > > I wouldn't even be in this situation, except that Symantec AV for Linux is a > little too fussy about kernel levels and the like to pass muster. > > We're builing a fairly massive vignette/orcale/apache et al environment and > the Symantec product is kernel level rigid. It's like we will support > 2.4.16-252. Not 251. Not 253 JUST 251. So we apply maintenance that involves > the kernal, which we did for some oracle/vignette level set requirements and > SAV stopped doing on access scanning and all the other stuff we wanted it > for. Just because the kernel level nudged up slightly. > > So I dusted off my Clam AV setup that I built for Linux on z/Series, created > a front end, and through some NFS magic, and automount, I scan all the linux > server file systems from a single point, and let ONE server do all the heavy > lifting. > > Is it perfect? no. Is it working? Yes. > > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html ========== "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHQchnNEKmdDLMbSsRAuTVAKDaXZ54ndm0+3B8ZRcG9HZjABlfKwCgxe7K aGtTOEJ4FRnrJ9MJIyg1Mpc= =exO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
