John,

Using Data Ontap 6.1 and later, antivirus hooks are built in for a passive scanning solution using 3rd party products, like Carrierscan, and I believe there are some others too.

We currently use Symantec's Carrierscan, which scans files accessed via CIFS, on demand. All bugs/patches/fixes aside, it's not a bad way to go, once all of the virus ridden files are off of the filer. Since the product only scans files on demand, any files that are already associated with a virus (such as .eml files from nimda) won't get taken care of unless some actually attempts to access them via CIFS.

I just mounted all my volumes via NFS and did a little

find /{volumename} -name '*.eml' -exec rm {} ;

and now I should be able to let Carrierscan do the rest. The only other real problem that I've had are the inability to get liveupdates to happen automatically using the scheduler or the AT service, like the Symantec docs mention. Anyone have success with this yet?

Thanks!

-Marc

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Strange, John wrote:

| We were just wondering how everyone was handling virus scanning of their | Netapp filers, with the recent attack of nimda we've been cleaning up the | filers. We would prefer to do this from a solaris box, unless it's not | possible. | | Is there a native app for the filer? Or is everyone doing this through | cifs/nfs? | | Thanks, | - John |