Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Anti-virus on LTSP

[Chris R. <cj...@tr...>]

On Thursday 26 Jun 2014, rkwesk_ltsp wrote:
> I agree with Joseph, both with the usefulness of virus scanning in
> Linux and the choice of clamav as it is gpl and without cost.

AV on Linux is largely about protecting your organisation's email recipients 
from forwarded attachments.

Personally I would ensure your mailserver has AV, both incoming and preferably 
outgoing. I would also block all the obvious file types, largely because I 
don't trust ClamAV. ClamAV has never been that great, hardly ever detects 
even obviously viral mail attachments.

But you could run ClamAV on LTSP as well, possibly overnight on /home as a 
warning system, I doubt it will find much though. You could also set 
something up to auto-scan inserted USB keys.

But after a while of running Linux, you do get a bit complacent about viruses.

If you have Wine installed, then there is a larger potential risk, although I 
have never heard of anyone actually having a virus in Linux or under Wine. We 
do use Wine, and I just ensure that .wine folder is not user writeable.

8 years with 50 users and certainly never had a problem. Yet.

Chris
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Chris Roberts