virus scanner for linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:40:00PM -0400, Kerry Panchoo wrote:
> as we all know- windows viruses cant run on linux.. but very often we 
> get email and files on our linux machines which may have viruses that we 
> dont know about- these files-- viruses and all can be easily transferred 
> over the network to a windows machine and well...... if your favourite 
> anti-virus scanner does not scan it, then you could say bye bye to lots 
> of things.. so my question is- are there any free OSS virus scanners 
> that scans files for windows viruses?
> there are a few Linux AVs online.. whats your experience been like with 
> them? who seem to have their house in order? who should i consider 
> running on my linux boxes to keep the windows part of my network very happy?
> 
> Kerry
> ps. these days there seem to be a lot of spam with viruses.. pretty 
> annoying!

Well I use exim + mailscanner + spamassassin + f-prot to do all the
email scanning.  F-prot has a free linux client, that uses the same
virus definisions as the windows client.  Has worked pretty well for me.
Not sure how the open source stuff is doing (clamav and such).

Lennart Sorensen
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