 A Centralized
and Flexible Antivirus Solution
Dani Pardo
Viruses can represent a huge problem, specially now that information
flows so fast. If your network has a reasonable number of clients,
you probably don't want to spend much time regularly installing
and upgrading antivirus software. Using client-side antiviruses
also has the disadvantage of slowing down performance, and your
users might even find them difficult to run.
Client/Server Antivirus
The solution I present here uses Linux smb support to scan
viruses in your network client's hard disk. The idea is to
share the client's hard disk or directory, and let the server
scan it via the network. This solution saves you from installing,
operating, and maintaining separate antivirus installations on each
client. However, this approach also has some limitations. Performing
virus scans from the server consumes a lot of network bandwith.
Also, I do not recommend this approach if you are concerned about
privacy and internal security. This solution also has the drawback
that it won't be able to scan the MBR (the boot sector) of
the hard disk and the partition table.
It uses McAffe's AVP (Antiviral Toolkit Pro), with the kernel's
ability to mount NetBIOS shares.
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