Does nayone here have been attack by a virus on your Linux server? Since I am running Linux AS 2.1, do I need to worry? Is there any Anti-Virus software out there that are written for Linux?

Any ideas?

Thank you!!

Clam AV and F-Prot have clients for Linux. We should always be aware of viruses. Just because Linux has no 'in the wild' viruses doesn't matter - if you are serving files in any way to Windows clients, you should definitely be scanning for viruses. They need all the help they can get

Thanks for your response, XavierP. Where can I find these anti-viruses software?

Again Thanks,
JB

http://www.clamav.net/ and http://www.f-prot.com/download/ (F-Prot is free for home use, but not for corporate use) F-Protalso has a gui available, if it's not on the download files from the website just Google for it or check Sourceforge.

I'd also worry about rootkits.

Look into software such as chkrootkit http://www.chkrootkit.org/.

Sophos and McAfee also have Linux versions of their corporate anti-virus software. You should always be worried about viruses on any OS, but if you have to rank the priority perhaps A-V ranks a little lower on OSs that are not Windows. If, however, your Linux server will host SMB/CIFS shares (Windows shares via Samba), you should definitely have A-V to prevent users from infecting each other via the Windows shares.

hkb33 is right, you should also be concerned about rootkits. These are a lot more common on Linux than cookie-cutter viruses.

Thanks so guys for your response of my concerns. How do you install & run this Rootkits??

Thanks,
JB

All the info should be on the website.

Yes, you should be worried about viruses. I had a linux server that had to be taken off line because it was attacking other windows computers on the same network. I would definately consider virus scanners. Infact, today I am going to install the virus scanner and get it back up on the internet, password protected though.

I would suggest McAfee.

-Derek

At recent,more Java and browser virus come,it may or may not affect Linux machine...who knows.

Trend Micro http://www.trendmicro.com has ServerProtect Linux that provides the SAMBA,FTP and HTTP scan,you may want to take a look.

I also recommend Trend Micro. Infoworld and Networkworld rate it as the best AV scanner for the Enterprise.

However, the Trend Micro software will cost you $$$. So be sure that you can get enough funding to afford Trend Micro if you chose to use it.

You may also wish to implement a firewall server or device between your Wan connection and your servers.

If you are really, really paranoid you can segment the local network in such a way as to place internal firewalls between network segments.

(I don't recommend this, unless you have alot of time, money and network admins to oversee this security solution.)

Thorn