Use ClamAV - surely this will protect / scan the files on the Samba shares from the Linux box itself.? John -----Original Message----- From: Graham Smith [mailto:gqs@iinet.net.au] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:26 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] does virus and worms affects linux ? On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:55, Marco Oliveira wrote:
I'm a samba user, so, all the files that i have in samba mounts can be infected, but not the linux itself (i was thinking in a virus that infects files) ?
"...Another example would be if you are using MS Word under wine or Win4lin on
your Linux box and open a word file which has a macro virus you would be in trouble. That said if you open the same file using openoffice it wouldn't be a problem as the macro cannot run. ..."
In this case, what could i do to terminate the virus ?
Marco
With samba mounts you can use a Windows Box with a virus scanner to remove any infected files if you are lucky. Otherwise you will need to revert to your backups. You do backups I hope! If using vmware or Win4Lin you should be able to run a virus scanner. On Wine or Codeweavers Crossover I don't know of any virus sanners that work. Files infected by a virus using Wine would have to be removed by hand. The linux operating system itself would not likely to be effected. -- Regards, Graham Smith --------------------------------------------------------- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com