-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mini-FAQ: "antivirus software for Linux/Unix" Version: 1.9 Maintainer: Rainer Link Release date: 07/29/2000 http://rainer.w3.to/ 1. About this mini-FAQ This mini-FAQ informs you about currently available antivirus software and content filtering tools for Linux and other Unix versions. 2. Overview All listed products do not only search for known Linux-viruses (such as Staog or Bliss), but also for known viruses for DOS/Windows, macro viruses or generally-speaking malicious code. According to the producers, the Linux-version of their av-software uses the same scanning engine as it is used at the Windows-version. The product list is divided in four sections: * on-demand scanner * on-acces scanner * virus protection / content-filtering at the eMail gateway * virus protection / content-filtering at the Internet gateway 2.1 on demand-scanner 2.1.1 F-Secure Antivirus for Linux Producer/Developer: F-Secure Corp., Finland Platform: Intel Download: http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/ Version: 4.08 Size: approx. 1.6 MB Contact: Anti-Virus-Sales@datafellows.com Pricing: Comments: According to Ari Hypponen a trial copy is not available yet on the web site. 2.1.2 H+B EDV AntiVir/X Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany Platfom: Intel Download: http://www.hbedv.com/ Version: 6.02.00, 15 June 2000 Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB contact person: Martin Ritter Pricing: AntiVir/X is freeware for private use, but it is recommended to register the software via eMail. For commercial use, please contact H+B EDV Comments: TkAntVir, a GUI written witk Tcl/Tk is available from www.geiges.de/sebastian/ 2.1.3 NAI Netshield (uvscan) for Unix (Linux) Producer/Developer: Network Associates, USA Platform: FreeBSD, AIX, HP UX, Linux, SCO, Solaris Download: http://www.nai.com/asp_set/buy_try/try/products_evals.asp Version: 4.7 (licensed version) Size (compressed): approx. 3,7 MB contact person: support@nai.com, sales@nai.com Pricing: should be part of the "Total Virus Defense", please ask their sales team. Comment: 2.1.4 Sophos Sweep for Linux Producter/Developer: Sophos UK / Sophos US Platform: Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Linux (Intel/Alpha), SCO OpenServer (Intel), SCO UnixWare (Intel), Digital Unix (Alpha), AIX (PowerPC), FreeBSD (Intel), HP-UX (HP-PA) Download: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/eval/savunix.html Version: 3.36, August 2000 Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB contact person: support@sophos.com Pricing: In Germany it is freeware for private use, but it is recommended to register it by email, phone or fax. For commercial use please ask the sales team (sales@sophos.com) Comment: 2.1.5 Trend Micro FileScan for Linux Producer/Developer: Trend Micro, USA Platform: Intel Download: http://www.antivirus.com/free_tools/linux Version: 1.0 Size (compressed): approx. 2,5 MB contact person: Pricing: free of charge (non-commercial use only) Comments: developed for RedHat 6.x 2.1.6 CyberSoft VFind Security ToolKit (VSTK) for Linux Developer: CyberSoft Inc., United States Platform: DEC Alpha, SCO UnixWare/Unix, Sun Solaris/SunOS, Unisys, Linux Download: an evaluation copy is available upon request Version: Current VSTK157 Size (compressed): approx. 1 MB Contact: sales@cyber.com Pricing: see http://www.cyber.com/products/masterprice.html Comments: The VFind Security ToolKit is a suite of computer security and antivirus tools. 2.7.1 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.html Version: 3.0 - build 133 Size (compressed): 200 KB Contact: sales@avp.ru or sales@avp.com Pricing: commercial Comments: needs antivirus database (AVC) files 2.1.7.2 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) Daemon for Linux Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.html Version: 3.0 build 133 Size (compressed): 204 KB Contact: sales@avp.ru or sales@avp.com Pricing: commercial Comments: needs the antivirus database files 2.1.8 Comouter Associates InoculateIT (inocucmd) for Linux Developer: Computer Associates, USA Platform: Linux, Solaris Download: ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/getbbs/solaris.eng/ ftp://ftp.cai.com/pub/getbbs/linux.eng/ Version: 4.0 Size (compressed): 1.5 MB Contact: info@cai.com Pricing: Comments: according to README.txt for RedHat 6.0 and above, but runs also on my SuSE 6.2 2.2 on-access scanner 2.2.1 H+B EDV AVGuard/Linux Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany Platfom: Linux Download: ftp://ftp.antivir.de/linux/ Version: 0.9 beta Size (compressed): approx. 120 KByte contact person: Martin Ritter Pricing: Comments: AVGuard/Linux provides resident, on-access virus-protection. Currently it works only with kernel 2.0.36-38. Needs AntiVir/X 2.2.2 Kaspersky Lab AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) Monitor for Linux Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia Platform: Linux Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.html Version: Beta 1 (0.01) Size (compressed): 20 KB Contact: sales@avp.ru or sales@avp.com Pricing: GPL Comments: AVP Monitor is a patch for kernel 2.2.x series, it needs AVP Daemon. It is now included in the AVPDaemon package. 2.3 virus protection / content-filtering at the email gateway 2.3.1 H+B EDV AvGate Producer/Developer: H+B EDV Datentechnik GmbH, Tettnang, Germany Platfom: Linux Download: ftp://ftp.antivir.de/linux/ Version: 6.02.00.00 Size (compressed): approx. 30 KByte contact person: Martin Ritter Pricing: freeware (private use) Comments: AvGate is a stmp store-and-forward proxy with virus scanning capabilities. Needs AntiVir/X 2.3.2 AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner Developer: Christian Bricart & AMAViS-Dev-Team Platform: Linux, SPARC, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and more Download: http://amavis.org/ http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6006 Version: AMaViS 0.2.1-pre1 AMaViS-Perl-7 supported MTAs: AMaViS: sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim AMaViS-Perl: sendmail, qmail, postfix supported scanner: Sophos Sweep, KasperskyLab AVP, H+BEDV AntiVir, NAI VirusScan, Trend FileScanner, F-Secure AV, CAI InoculateIT, CyberSoft VFind Size (compressed): approx. 100 KB contact person: Christian Bricart Pricing: none License: GPL Comments: AMaViS scans email attachments by executing one or more av program(s). 2.3.3 Mail::IspMailGate Developer: Amar Subramanian & Jochen Wiedmann Platform: Download http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-IspMailGate Version: 1.1013 alpha supported MTAs: sendmail supported scanner: basically all (do-it-yourself) Size (compressed): approx. 49 KB Pricing: none (?) License: GPL or Artistic License 2.3.4 Scan4Virus Developer: Jason Haar Platform: Download: http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/ Version: 0.53 supported MTAs: qmail supported scanner: Sophos Sweep, NAI VirusScan, Trend FileScanner, H+B EDV AntiVir, KasperskyLab AVP, F-Secure AV Size (compressed): approx. 22 KB Pricing: none License: GPL 2.3.5 Inflex Developer: Paul L Daniels Platform: Linux, Unix Download: http://www.spyda.co.za/inflex/ Version: 1.0.5c supported MTAs: sendmail supported scanner: F-Secure AV, Sophos Sweep, NAI VirusScan Size (compressed): approx. 24 KB Pricing: none License: GPL 2.3.6 WMailScanner Developer: Philippe Plantier Platform: Download: http://messel.emse.fr/~pplantie/wmailscanner/ Version: 0.0.2 supported MTAs: sendmail supported Scanner: Size (compressed): approx. 15 KB Pricing: none License: GPL 2.3.7 Kaspersky Lab AVP for sendmail Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia Platform: Linux, FreeBSD Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp Version: 0.0.4-1, 0.0.3 supported MTAs: sendmail Size (compressed): 150 KB Pricing: License: commercial 2.3.8 Kaspersky Lab AVP for qmail Developer: Kaspersky Lab, Russia Platform: Linux, FreeBSD Download: http://www.kasperskylab.ru/eng/products/eval.asp Version: 0.0.4-1, 0.0.3 supported MTAs: qmail Size (compressed): Pricing: License: commercial 2.3.9 Mailchecker Developer: Ragnar Kjorstad, Eivind Kjorstad Platform: anyone on which python runs Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=2306 Version: 0.1 supported MTAs: sendmail Size (compressed): License: GPL Comments: currently only development release available 2.3.10 Protector Developer: Christopher M. 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Lowth Platform: Download: http://www.lowth.com/protector/ Version: 1.0 supported MTA: sendmail Size (compressed): 166 KB License: GPL 2.3.11 Content Filtering Tools (mostly GPL'ed) http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/milter/ (sendmail libmilter stuff) http://www.barrett.com.au/Software/sendmail/index.html (sendmail libmilter stuff) http://adsl-nolte1.rz.rwth-aachen.de/progs/vbs/ (vbs - make mail attachments unexecutable) http://mailtools.anomy.net/ (Anomy mail tools - email sanitizer) http://www.missing.net/vbscript.php3 (Sendmail VBScript Attachment Tweaker) ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/ (Mail filter for exim) http://www.magix.com.sg/Users2/sweeheng/macofida/index.htm (mail content filtering daemon) http://www.inetfido.com/qscan/ (qscan - Sendmail Queue Scanner) http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/ (MIME Defanger - sendmail 8.10.x) http://people.oven.com/bet/mailfilt/index.html (Mailfilt) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sendmail-milter/ (sendmail Perl filter) 2.4 virus protection / content filtering at the Internet gateway 2.4.1 Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall for Linux Producer/Developer: Trend Micro, USA Platform: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux Download: http://www.antivirus.com/ Version: 3.1a Size: approx. 7 MB contact person: Pricing: Comments: developed for RedHat 6.x - a version for SuSE Linux is currently developed 2.4.2 Content Filtering Tools httpf - a web security proxy: http://httpf.sourceforge.net/ muffin - WWW Filtering System: http://muffin.doit.org/ WebFilter - http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/NoShit/ ByProxy - http://www.besiex.org/ByProxy/index.html 3. Contacting the author If you have questions, suggestopms or if you find an error in this document, please write to Rainer.Link@suse.de - Thanks! This Mini-FAQ is part of "The Linux/Unix Anti Virus Project": http://lavp.sourceforge.net/ 4. Distribution of this document This document may be distributed freely via eMail, in Newsgroups or be put on a web-site, if it is garantied that it is not altered in any way. If you put this mini-faq on your web-site, I would be pleased if you put a link to http://lavp.sourceforge.net/ on your site, too. (c) by Rainer Link, 1999-2000 - All rights reserved. Thanks to SuSE Germany for funding my work. All information in this document are provided "as it is". There is no warranty, that it is faultless or that all (known) products are listed. All trademarks are respected. 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