From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 12:13:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8EF1065676 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1062E8FC1E for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AMD620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q6RCCwZ0023237; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:13:04 -0600 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:15:29 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: Daniel Bye Message-ID: <20120727191529.01222988@AMD620.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20120727114729.GC4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <20120727104308.GA4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20120727110019.GB4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20120727114729.GC4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On-access AV scanning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:13:19 -0000 Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:47:29 +0100 Daniel Bye wrote: > 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? why should it be available when it is not needed? > > >>> > > >>FreeBSD doesn't need this as there are no viruses on that system. Ok, this is a bad reasoning. > > > > 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. You will not find them. The scanners running on FreeBSD are looking for Windows pests. > 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. > Does it scan for FreeBSD viruses? I would wonder. > 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. You will have to give it a miss then. The security concepts of FreeBSD are 100% different. They will never match this kind of policy. Erich