[OpenAFS] Server-side Antivirus

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:41:29 -0400


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On 10/15/07, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
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> "Smith, Matt" <matt.smith@uconn.edu> writes:
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> > Can anyone recommend a server-side Antivirus product that provides
> > real-time (on write) server-side virus detection on my FS servers?  My
> > AFS servers are all Debian Etch.
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> I'm pretty sure such a beast doesn't exist.  It would need to understand
> either the AFS protocol or the AFS on-disk format, and I would be stunned
> if any virus detector could handle either.


the on disk format for files in namei is simple: "just scan the files"; if
you remove something you need to salvage the volume, though.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russ Allbery</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:rra@stanford.edu">rra@stanford.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&quot;Smith, Matt&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:matt.smith@uconn.edu">matt.smith@uconn.edu</a>&gt; writes:<br><br>&gt; Can anyone recommend a server-side Antivirus product that provides<br>&gt; real-time (on write) server-side virus detection on my FS servers?&nbsp;&nbsp;My
<br>&gt; AFS servers are all Debian Etch.<br><br>I&#39;m pretty sure such a beast doesn&#39;t exist.&nbsp;&nbsp;It would need to understand<br>either the AFS protocol or the AFS on-disk format, and I would be stunned<br>if any virus detector could handle either.
</blockquote><div><br>the on disk format for files in namei is simple: &quot;just scan the files&quot;; if you remove something you need to salvage the volume, though.<br><br><br></div><br></div><br>

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