[clamav-users] using older clients to download from internal clam proxy

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

> On 02.12.21 18:31, novpenguincne via clamav-users wrote:
>> OK. It might be difficult to get the new client to run on the old o/s but 
>> I'll see what I can do.
>
> hopefully  older client should be able to connect to newer clamav server on
> different machine via network.

If all else fails I can provide a pure Perl script which can do that,
but it might be simpler just to remote mount the device(s) which are to
be scanned; no need to install ClamAV on the scanned host(s) at all.

At least the scanned host isn't then scanning itself, which without
some qualification is to my mind completely crazy - since if it *is*
compromised, its scanning tools will be amongst the first things that
will be trashed by the attacker.

Of course scanning over the network can use a lot of bandwidth.

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73,
Ged.