Portable and open source integrity monitoring and intrusion detection system.
Afick (Another File Integrity CHecker) is a fast and portable intrusion detection and integrity monitoring system.
Afick has been designed to work on all platforms (it only needs Perl and standard modules), including Mac OS X, Unix, Windows, Linux.
Afick is a security tool, very close from the well known tripwire. It allows to monitor the changes on your files systems, and so can detect intrusions.
Main features of Afick:
portable without any change to all common operating systems (Mac OS X, Windows, Unix ...)
easy install : no need to compile or to install many others tools
fast
display new/deleted/modified files
display dangling links
may be used by any user
any number of base and config
config file with exceptions and jokers
configuration file syntaxe close from aide's one
command line is perfect on Unix, but Windows users prefer graphical interfaces, so it also has a Tk interface
What's New in This Release:
new features:
(windows) afick_planning now send report instead summary and use LINES macro
(unix) new MOUNT macro to use a remote database when using batch task on unix (afick_cron)
incompatibility:
(unix) remove udev files from scan
bug fix:
(unix) fix a warning with perl 5.10 on Constant subroutine main::S_IWGRP redefined
security:
add a security to avoid exlude auto-control files
others:
fix perlcritic warnings
better Makefile.pl diagnostics in install by tar.gz