February 26th, 2007
I have been singing the praises of vmware for some time now.
rPath’s virtual machine for use with vmware is an excellent way of getting a webserver (with all the bells and whistles) running on your local network with very little hassle. I never liked running any type of server on my window’s box and I have found Fedora has become a bit awkward regarding stuff like php-mysql (recompiling Apache or MySQL to deal with such problems just doesn’t do it for me anymore).
You could be even smarter about it and run the virtual machine in it’s own partition and build a secure webserver connection to the outside world!
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February 25th, 2007
ClamAV is a GNU/GPL Antivirus application made for Unix-like operating system. It is primarily use to detect viruses and remove infected files from email attachements. The default installation of ClamAV also includes a command line scanner to files for possible virus infection. The scanner has built in support to scan files inside : Common Archives (zip,rar,tar,gzip,bzip2,arj) Windows Compressed […]
ClamAV is a GNU/GPL Antivirus application made for Unix-like operating system. It is primarily use to detect viruses and remove infected files from email attachements.
The default installation of ClamAV also includes a command line scanner to files for possible virus infection. The scanner has built in support to scan files inside :
- Common Archives (zip,rar,tar,gzip,bzip2,arj)
- Windows Compressed files (CHM,CAB,OLE2)
- Mail format (mbox, uuencode, base64)
- Common document files (html,pdf,rtf,sxw,odt)
Linux is safe and Secure, Why do you need anti virus on Linux ?
Although viruses in Unix-like operating system is uncommon, ClamAV is still handy if you want to weed out those viruses from spreading through your mail system and using your computer server as a vector.
Using ClamAV
Using ClamAV is easy, to scan for viruses you only need to use the ‘clamscan’ command
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$ clamscan
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/home/mypapit/mypapit.js: OK
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/home/mypapit/ubuntu_service.png: OK
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/home/mypapit/style.css: OK
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/home/mypapit/repo1.png: OK
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/home/mypapit/bg_button2.jpg: OK
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/home/mypapit/repo1tn.png: OK
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/home/mypapit/ChiSquareDistribution.zip: OK
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/home/mypapit/javapackage.png: OK
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/home/mypapit/jdk14.png: OK
The scanner will detect any known viruses and alert you and a summary will be displayed at the end of the command.
add ‘–remove’ switch to remove the files that has been detected by virus.
Note that ClamAV has a policy of ’sanitizing’ any files infected by viruses, that means it will delete the files permanently (it has no ‘heal’ or ‘repair’ option).
Updating Virus Database
Keeping up to date with ClamAV is easy, you just need to run freshclam to download the latest virus database from ClamAV servers.
The official website for ClamAV is on http://clamav.net, hopefully with this post, you can explore more option about fighting viruses on Linux based operating system.
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February 25th, 2007
Mozilla today released updated versions of the Firefox browser, v1.5.0.10 and v2.0.0.2, for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which close a major security flaw called the ‘location.hostname vulnerability’. The fix stops hackers from being able to tamper with how websites are displayed.
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