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Can anyone point me in the direction of an Anti-virus software that is capable of running on Slackware 9.1. I realize this is a very old distro but for my purposes it is stable and runs our software flawlessly. Thanks in advance.
Can anyone point me in the direction of an Anti-virus software that is capable of running on Slackware 9.1. I realize this is a very old distro but for my purposes it is stable and runs our software flawlessly. Thanks in advance.
ClamAV should work fine on it. Slackware 9.1 isn't that old... I see fedora core 1/2/4 regularly still and occasionally truly ancient suse and debian servers.
Thanks I will look into it. A basic google search yielded that, but the oldest version of Slackware that I could tell people were using it with was 10, but I obviously did not look that hard.
One of our clients IT departments, run by HP, is requiring us to add AV to our terminals running 9.1, yet they dont even have internet access and the only point that it could become infected is when we install our proprietary software or be there at the time of install. Try explaining that to them, and it's like arguing with a brick wall.
ClamAV has nothing to do with protecting a specific computer from getting viruses. It's for filtering stuff that flows through a mail server, or cleaning documents that were on a dirty windows install from a nice, safe Linux environment. You might want to run something like rkhunter regularly, though.
Thanks I will look into it. A basic google search yielded that, but the oldest version of Slackware that I could tell people were using it with was 10, but I obviously did not look that hard.
One of our clients IT departments, run by HP, is requiring us to add AV to our terminals running 9.1, yet they dont even have internet access and the only point that it could become infected is when we install our proprietary software or be there at the time of install. Try explaining that to them, and it's like arguing with a brick wall.
Anyways, thanks for your help.
I'd be asking the client why?
But you do need to keep the client happy.
Install it, no harm just a waste of time.
You would be better off having chrootkit or other root kit checks.
Keep your customer and install the AV, but plan for offline updates. Follow onebuck's advise and install rkhunter and chkrootkit. Check out Lynis too..
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