Originally posted by: SystemAdmin
> Has any one installed antivirus software on AIX?
> There are products available from McAfee like
> "McAfee VirusScan command line scanner for Unix" If
> f any one has worked with such tools, are these tools
> useful to run?
After googling the above (http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/anti_virus/file_servers_desktops/virusscan_command_line_scanner_windows_unix.html),
I understand this software is a CLI (versus GUI) mail stream "firewall",
executed on a unix host, to filter out Microsoft malware and Windows worms,
before the mail triggers destructive activity on Microsoft and/or Windows boxes on the LAN.
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At a prior company a few years ago,
I managed a (non-AIX) unix box that was our primary internal web server.
To support its service users, the unix box was placed in our demilitarized
with access to both the LAN and internet.
Already positioned in the demilitarized zone,
it was used as a temporary mail relay one time that the Microsoft mail relay required servicing.
While serving as temporary mail relay service,
a Microsoft virus (species forgotten) struck the company,
and penetrated the antivirus software running on Microsoft Windows elsewhere,
bringing most departments to a screeching halt.
Our department, using the unix box,
running (IIRC McAfee) antivirus software,
had Microsoft and/or Windows boxes on the LAN that continued to run,
though the flood on the outside network still slowed service to and from the outside network to a crawl.
The temporary nature of the unix box service as mail relay,
became permanent.
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