Firewalls: PC virus scanner on UNIX

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(October 1994)

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Subject:	PC virus scanner on UNIX
From:	padgett @ tccslr . dnet . mmc . com (A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security)
Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 94 16:38:35 -0400
To:	"ras @ cacdvax . cacd . rockwell . com"@UVS1.dnet.mmc.com
Cc:	"firewalls @ greatcircle . com"@UVS1.dnet.mmc.com

>Way off the normal firewalls topic, but in line with the current tangent,
>does anyone know of a PC virus scanner that runs on Unix?  We have many
>PC drives on the network that are served under NFS by Unix servers.  

COAST's TRIPWIRE is the closest thing I know of - more of an integrity
management tool but will detect virus attempts to change files on UNIX
systems.

The only cross-platform Scanners I know of are NLMs for Novell (McAfee,
Intel, TNS).
					Warmly,
						Padgett

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