On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:19:45AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Daniel Bye wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:04PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>>Are there any current options available to support on-access antivirus > >>>scanning on FreeBSD? > >>> > >>FreeBSD doesn't need this as there are no viruses on that system. > > > >Well, thanks. > > > >> > >>>And yes, I know that neither FreeBSD nor Solaris are renowned for their > >>>sickly vulnerability to viruses, but we operate in a mixed environment, > >>>with > >>>a lot of Windows machines and ZFS file systems exported by SMB/CIFS, so we > >>>need the AV to ensure any viruses are stopped before they infect a > >>>susceptible machine. It seems a small price to pay to finally get a decent > >>>workstation! > >>No idea - YOU will not spread wiruses, and viruses from other > >>winstations will not affect you. > >> > >>so just install antivirus software on winstations. > >> > >>Or finally educate users as it is really simple to avoid viruses > >>even with windows > > > >I refer you to the part where I specifically talk about our corporate IT > >policy. All desktops/workstations (that is, all of them, every single one), > >must have AV software running on them. There will be no exceptions, on pain > > Well, there is AV software for FreeBSD - we use Kaspersky on our > FreeBSD based mailserver, but the viruses it looks for are Windows > viruses. I don't know if that will satisfy your IT policy. Maybe you > should be looking at Cygwin? Or, can FreeBSD run under HyperV?
Thanks, Daniel. I have looked at Kaspersky, and various others, but the main
sticking point, as I see it, is that there is no on-access scanning
capability in any of the AV packages available for FreeBSD. It's not
essential to build my case, but it would certainly strengthen it. I use
ClamAV on my home mail server, and it works well. I have also tested it out
on a desktop machine to run on-demand scans, and it works just fine, and
doesn't impose so much of a load as to be a nuisance.
We have had a couple of virus outbreaks recently, so this is quite a high
profile concern around here at the moment. The CIO is from a technical
background, so I might well be able to convince him of FreeBSD's strengths
as a very secure system, but I will still need to accede to the IT policy,
sadly - no way around it.
Dan
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