I have a Linux box I use as a file server. It has a 300 Gig, Samba, NTFS file share on it. Since creating the NTFS file share I have had repeated problems with worms and trojans paying homage to me.
So... My question is will the Linux AVG client scan/clean and protect the NTFS file share?
I sent an email to them about this already and I am waiting a responce from them but was wondering if anyone here has any experiance or thoughts to share.
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Now granted a linux antivirus program probably does not have much to do when actively protecting a system from w32 worms and trojans, but they should still detect and be able to clean them since w32 is the most common type of virus/worm out there. I could be wrong, but it would be a bit silly to code an antivirus program that only detects and cleans linux viruses. If linux can read and write to the NTFS volume I see no reason why the antivirus program couldn't scan and clean it.
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It's a Samba - NTFS file share. I would go into details, but the short of it is that it fakes out clients into believing its an NTFS share when its not. The point is I have a Linux box, Mandrake 9 - 2.4 kernel - running Samba to emulate NTFS which gets slammed with the W32 virus - will a linux AV protect it or do I need to run wine and install my norton, which would be way ugly. Think I would change the Linux share to emulate another file system first.fliptw wrote:writing to NTFS is unsupported under linux. unless you are connecting the linux box to another windows machine, you have clarifying to do.
But I think Krom is right on the money.
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umm... i write to NTFS under SUSE quite easily thank you very much...fliptw wrote:writing to NTFS is unsupported under linux. unless you are connecting the linux box to another windows machine, you have clarifying to do.
