I used to work for a school district and we would have outbreaks of
Word macro viruses every once in a while. Those were the only viruses
that people would store on the server other than an occasional .exe
from their email. They had no effect on the server, but the users
would pass them on to others.
I had a script that would run the built-in version of clamav on
10.4.x Server and scan the user's shares during the weekend. It would
email me a list of infected Word docs and I would mount the share
from my workstation and clean the offending files with Norton Anti-
Virus. I would then contact the user who had the infected files and
let them know. Most of the time it was from work they brought in from
home. This way I avoided installing another anti-virus application on
the server, I used what was built-in already.
Not the best solution, but it worked. One thing to remember is that
running a scan on a large amount of data using clamav will slow down
the server. It's best to cron it for a weekend or other idle time and
you have to clean the files with another anti-virus application.
Clamav won't clean the files, it will only notify you that they are
infected.
See ya,
Kevin Anderson
On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:21 AM, tom hayes wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone recommend anti virus software for OS X server. Currently
we use
virusscan on the client OS X machines, but it has too many issues
to use it
on Server.
Using no antivirus software is not an option in our environment.
I am posting this to a UK list as well, so please excuse any cross
posts.
Thanks,
Tom.
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