Re: Antivirus/ransomware software

Yes these are used.

HelpSystems/Fortra IFS encryption product utilizes these as well and although that caused some friction when customers have both AV and a Encryption products loaded, we’ve managed to overcome that.
Thanks to IBM and the continued contributions to the OS, 7.5 gives us new exit points for Encryption to use so we no longer have to piggy back on the scan ones.

Jay

On Nov 3, 2022, at 12:16 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

They do. IBM added some exit points way back in v5 I think to support the
AV products.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=values-scan-file-systems-qscanfs

Charles

On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 9:42 AM David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/3/22 8:07 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Has it ever caught anything? Like, have you ever got a report that
it stopped a virus from being written to your system?

Admittedly, I haven't looked at any of the current IBM i AV products,
but I'm wondering if they even have the ability to monitor the file
system and scan file creates & changes.

I know clamav requires specific functionality to be in the linux kernel
to support scan on access.

I use clamav to the mailing list server to scan all incoming messages
for viruses. But that's invoked by the mail server (using milter api's).

david

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