Hi,

--- Vinayakam Murugan mvinayakam@gmail.com wrote:

We have a redhat 9 linux file server in our office.

Upgrade.

As long as you keep your system up-to-date there is no reason to have an anti-virus, especially in a GNU/Linux environment.

We would like to have a realtime virus scanner running on it so that proliferating viruses can be detected as soon as possible.

I never used one, never needed one.

SK

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On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:01, Vinayakam Murugan wrote:

Hi

We have a redhat 9 linux file server in our office. We would like to have a realtime virus scanner running on it so that proliferating viruses can be detected as soon as possible.

I googled and found options like avast! , escan, AVIRA.

Which are the popular, stable, reliable ones around?

There are commercial AV which can do this, but the simple solution will be using a dazako (forgive if the spelling is not correct) module with clamav.

If you are using a RH9 as a file server you may use samba - vscan which can integrate with clamav for scanning files as they are transferred.

Refer to http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/

Amish.