Re: Antivirus/ransomware software -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Antivirus/ransomware software
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 10:42:29 -0500
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On 11/3/22 8:07 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Has it ever caught anything? Like, have you ever got a report that
it stopped a virus from being written to your system?

Admittedly, I haven't looked at any of the current IBM i AV products, but I'm wondering if they even have the ability to monitor the file system and scan file creates & changes.

I know clamav requires specific functionality to be in the linux kernel to support scan on access.

I use clamav to the mailing list server to scan all incoming messages for viruses. But that's invoked by the mail server (using milter api's).

david

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Re: Antivirus/ransomware software , Charles Wilt
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