Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:58:24 +0800 | From | Cliffe <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:01:59AM +0800, Cliffe wrote: > >> If we had stackable LSMs then the required functionality could simply be >> built into the LSM interface. Then the anti-malware would simply stack >> itself with other LSMs. >> > > Could it really? How would such an interface work? > > Remember, the big issue here isn't the kernel "hooks", but the fact that > a lot of people are yet to be convinced that something like this needs > to be within the kernel itself. > > Perhaps we should dig up the proposals for the filesystem-notify type > patches, something like that might be all the majority of the virus > people need, as they want to just scan things for Windows viruses, not > Linux ones, and to do so "lazily" might be sufficient. > From memory Dazuko is a LSM designed for this purpose, although it cannot be used on systems running other LSMs due to the lack of stacking support. It is used by a bunch of anti-malware programs including ClamAV and AVG.
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