RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

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You shouldn't need any special software to scan for such viruses.  Any
Windows-based virus scanner that can include network drives is fine.
Make sure you have a machine that can map all of your IFS shared folders
as drives and then scan the mapped drives.
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Technically that's true.  However 
1)  A virus could be placed on a directory that's not shared, via FTP, 
etc.
2)  You 'may' get faster results with an iSeries solution.  Haven't tried 
Byteware's solution.  Years ago we had a dedicated PC who's sole mission 
in life was to virus scan (been so long ago, might have been our S/36). 
Performance was pathetic.  Granted so many things have changed performance 
wise since then that this might be a bad comparison, but it flags the 
point.

Rob Berendt
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