hello,

so could we all qalm down, please. the intention for my question was an 
plausible explanation for the security requirement of using a virus scanner on 
a normal solaris that doesn't work as a mail or samba server...
so i will have a look at the clamav pattern db to extract the unix specific 
patterns.

thx



Greg Folkert <g...@donor.com> schrieb:

>On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 12:22 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote:
>> On 6/18/13 8:08 AM, Alain Zidouemba wrote:
>> > As Joel Esler mentioned before, there are signatures for UNIX
>malware in
>> > the official ClamAV DB.
>> >
>> > - Alain
>> 
>> 
>> You would think such a simple question would have a simple answer.
>UNIX is not 
>> Solaris. Solaris is one of a few UNIX's around. Are the UNIX
>signatures for 
>> Tru-64, HP-UX, BSD UNIX, SCO UNIX, AIX...? Doesn't matter if there
>are or not to 
>> someone seeking Solaris 10 information, actually. Are there any for
>Solaris 10?
>> 
>> dp
>
>How about you download the signatures, decompress them and quickly scan
>them yourself? It seems as though this is a simple thing to do. Yes? I
>mean you probably already have the files local in your installation...
>why does someone else have to do something for you?
>
>Why all the noise? I don't think Joel's answer was specific enough for
>you... as Joel Esler responded earlier:
>
>        There are patterns for almost all operating systems in the
>        ClamAV db.
>
>Why is it lately a lot of people (in many many disciplines) just want
>an
>ANSWER and don't want to understand how to get the answer...
>themselves?
>
>I'll be quiet now.
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