Antivir update on dialup connect?
I thought for sure I'd asked a similar question on this mailing list regarding xntp, but I can't find it searching the list, so I'll ask again, this time about antivir. Not wanting to be the one idiot who managed to get a Linux box infected with a virus, I thought I'd install antivir while I was doing stuff like testing my firewall and popup protection. Well, I've done so, but I'm not sure it's working. 'ps ax | grep antivir' doesn't show it at work. Do I need to add it to a cron job or something, or does SuSE's install take care of that? And if I need to do it myself, how do I do it? Speaking of cron jobs (and of the subject of this mail), I want antivir to run an update whenever I connect my dialup. I seem to recall it's a very simple thing to do to have it run (like fetchmail and xntp) whenever my dialup connects, but I don't remember how to actually do it. What's the simplest way to handle this? I'm running SuSE 9.0, just in case it's important.
The Monday 2004-05-03 at 21:39 -0700, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
Not wanting to be the one idiot who managed to get a Linux box infected with a virus, I thought I'd install antivir while I was doing stuff like testing my firewall and popup protection. Well, I've done so, but I'm not sure it's working. 'ps ax | grep antivir' doesn't show it at work.
That's correct. It doesn't show because it is not running; and it is not running because it is not designed to be kept running continously: this is not windows, remember! The program "antivir" is designed to be run from the command line to check files. Or, used with amavis, to check incoming email. Or perhaps on a server checking a samba share, for the windows clients shake.
Speaking of cron jobs (and of the subject of this mail), I want antivir to run an update whenever I connect my dialup. I seem to recall it's a very simple thing to do to have it run (like fetchmail and xntp) whenever my dialup connects, but I don't remember how to actually do it. What's the simplest way to handle this?
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local But what for? No viruses here... yet, at least. They only check for "windows" viruses... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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