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The data center provides licenses for the anti-virus company McAfee products (formerly Network Associates) under favourable conditions. For Linux, we offer McAfee Virus Scan Command Line Scanner (hereinafter: Virus Scan) currently in version 5.10. The following is the installation and commissioning are briefly described. For more information, see the user manual.

Again to mention is that McAfee Virus Scan for Linux - as the name suggests easily - no graphical interface box. Nevertheless, the design installation and operation quite easy as following instructions show.
1st Prerequisites

VirusScan for Linux currently runs only on 32-bit Intel architectures and x64 CPUs with 32-bit compatibility mode. On the side of the system you will need at least a 2.4 or 2.6 Linux kernel and the libraries libc6 (glibc), gcc 3.2 and libstdc + +. So.5 what usually happens by default.
2nd McAfee VirusScan Download

To the McAfee VirusScan Command Line Scanner from the server of our data center to download, it requires a license agreement that allows you to access the required data will be issued. The license is available Mon-Fri 9.00 - 11.00 and 14.00-15.00 hours in our retail outlet in the room V515.
3rd McAfee VirusScan installed

Then we get the account data, the latest version of VirusScan Command Line scanner from the server. Then we extract the file with zcat vlnxp4440l.tar.Z | tar xf - and install them as root or with sudo comfortable with. / Install-uvscan / usr / local / uvscan.
4th Virus database update

The data center provides daily updated virus information for McAfee VirusScan is available. Download the latest version. Then unpack with tar xf-dat 4900.tar and install mv *. dat / usr / local / uvscan.
5th McAfee VirusScan configure

We initially set the automatic updates. To download the configuration file for FTP, and the update script down. And again it’s .. First, we bring the configuration file in place netrc mv / root / .netrc and adjust the rights to chmod 644 / root / .netrc. Similarly, we proceed with the update script, first create new directory mkdir / root / bin, now update script move update_dat.sh mv / root / bin and turn the rights to adapt chmod 755 / root / bin / update_dat.sh.

Now we can make the script via cron automatically every few hours. For this we use crontab-e or a GUI, such as Kcron or Gcrontab. A possible cronjob-entry, after which the virus database daily 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 hrs updated, looks like this:

0 8,10,12,14,16 * * * root sh / root / bin / update_dat.sh

6th With McAfee Virus Scan for viruses search

With uvscan can now search for viruses (list all options). Likewise can be as above regular virus scans as Cronjobs set. For example, in the daily 15 minutes after the update virus database in / home and their subdirectories (without regard symbolic links), looking for viruses. The corresponding logs (also update the database) can be found in / var / log / uvscan. At the same time, there is a clear summary of the scans deposited.

15 8,10,12,14,16 * * * root / usr / local / bin / uvscan - recursive - summary - ignore-left / home

7th Other issues to McAfee VirusScan

Learn how to use McAfee VirusScan refer to the user manual. And if you have additional questions about the McAfee VirusScan Command Line Scanner for Linux or virus issues generally, please contact our anti-virus experts in the data center, Otto Stolz (telephone: 2645) and John Rinn (Room: V522), or visit our anti-virus website.
Other anti-virus software

In addition to the McAfee software is at this point still a few other manufacturers of anti-virus software for Linux out (not exhaustive).
ClamAV Antivirus

ClamAV is an open source and free antivirus suite for Linux, developed especially for the scanning of e-mails. So there are a variety of tools to ensure the meantime, there are also two simple graphical interfaces, called ClamTK and Aegis2. Moreover, suitable ClamAV thanks Samba VScan also as resourcenschonender OnAccess scanner around for Samba servers.
Anvira AntiVir

One also under Microsoft Windows, and best known for the private use of free anti-virus tools is sicherhlich AntiVir Avira. In Linux, the program can either via the command line or via a graphical interface mostly German served. That is the kernel module Dazuko. For Ubuntu Users will find a detailed guide to the installation and use of AntiVir under Ubuntu.
Other anti-virus tools

Furthermore, among others, Sophos, F-Secure and Kaspersky (mostly paid) Anti-virus programs for Linux. Do you have any other questions regarding the use of certain anti-virus software you can rely on our anti-virus experts in the data center, Otto Stolz (telephone: 2645) and John Rinn (Room: V522), or visit our website Antivirus.
Viruses under Linux? If there’s that?

Explicit.png you think: “There are no viruses for Linux.” Although the rumour stubbornly holds, it is simply wrong. Of course, there are viruses for Linux. There are, however, some restrictions:

First, there are far fewer viruses for Linux systems, and secondly, it is under Linux not least because of the increase consistent with Microsoft Windows user and rights management considerably more difficult, really big damage. Price question: What is with Microsoft IIS?

Slip shortcomings of the actual Linux system, however, here are some bugs in the kernel. They may become the way to the root account is opened, such as the ptrace bug from the year 2003 or the prctl bug in 2006.

Despite this offer, in particular on Linux file servers with Microsoft Windows clients virus scanners to server Windows viruses to sift and destroyed it; not necessary, but a nice service (see ClamAV anti-virus).