[BBLISA] Commercial anitvirus scanner for Linux?

Brian O'Neill oneill at oinc.net
Tue Mar 10 21:32:03 EDT 2009


Would this "certification commission" be one that is a proponent of 
Windows solutions? :)

This wiki page lists a number of programs, both freeware and commercial:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses



Paul Beltrani wrote:
> I need a commercial product that scans Linux systems to demonstrate
> they are "free of malevolent software".    I'm not trying to fill a
> technical need.  This is a requirement promulgated by a "certification
> commission" that doesn't appear to actually understand the technology
> it is certifying.
> 
> In practice, there aren't any windows systems in the production
> infrastructure and there's no file repository to hold windows files,
> malware or otherwise, so I'm going with "It only has to scan Linux
> systems."
> 
> INAL, however, as long as it is "commercial"  "scans the system" and
> I can "demonstrate a procedure to do so." I believe I'm covered.
> 
>   - Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM, David Allan <dave at dpallan.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to be dense--are you looking for a product to scan for Linux malware
>> or Windows malware that might reside in files on the Linux host?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Paul Beltrani wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Jurvis LaSalle <jurvis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Would this do: http://www.clamav.net/support/ ?
>>>>
>>>> JL
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.  ClamAV is an email scanner.  I need a
>>> commercial, system level scanner.
>>>
>>>  - Paul Beltrani
>>>
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