Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:54:28 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control |
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Hi!
> MOTIVATION > > Since 2001 various anti-virus vendors have been providing out-of-tree > solutions for online virus scanning. Although GNU/Linux systems > currently are not targets of virus authors, many organizations are > interested in online virus scanning on Linux-based servers in order to > help protect Microsoft Windows clients. It is often argued that file > scanning should be implemented in the various services (such as Samba, > Apache, vsftpd, etc.), and indeed many such solutions have been > implemented. However, there is a continued demand for a kernel-based > solution because it can guard the entire filesystem independent from > the types and numbers of services running on a system.
Somewhere here you should mention that unlike other solutions that work 100% of time, dazuko is be design racy and may still allow viruses to be spread from linux system when mmap is used. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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