I got this question forwarded to me today and it was quite a good, reasonable question that I had to look into it to find out the answer because it was something I had never encountered to date.
Here's the question with the names not fully reported to protect the guilty..er....innocent:
We currently run Lotus Notes on a Windows server and are looking to move to a Linux server.
We now have Mcafee, but I do not believe they have a product for Linux that works with Lotus Notes.
Do you have any suggestions/recommendations for anti-virus for the Lotus Notes server only.
thank you
Joe
Well Joe, here's what I found out.
Started my search on Notes.net which is the first place to check for any questions regarding Notes/Domino...hell anything Lotus. Their forums are searchable and loaded full of nuggets of good info which has saved my bacon more than a few times.
Anyway, a quick browse through their forums shows very little information on Antivirus for Linux and Notes.
But...Google is your friend!
It turns out you do have options here.
There is:- The venerable Symantec
- Trend Micro's offering
- And if you like McAfee, you can stick with it!
- AVG has an offering for mail servers on Linux, but I am unsure of if it will work on a Domino box.
One quick caveat. To date, there has never been a virus written to successfully exploit Lotus Notes/Domino. All viruses have been to exploit the underlying operating system. Now that doesn't mean that you do not need to have an AV product, I will say that you do.
But you also have other options.
Have you considered putting an anti-spam/virus/malware gateway in front of your Domino servers?
At my shop, we put this VMWare Virtual Appliance, ESVA as our gateway back in February. It uses a mixture of different technologies to filter nasties out of your email.
I put this in on our network in February, and to date not a single virus has made it to my Domino server!
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TheSlothMan
