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?
daniel feenberg
NBER
of dismissal. I don't want to lose my job, because you said I didn't need AV
software.
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