ok... is there any free virus-filtering software?? -----Mensaje original----- De: Ray Dillinger [mailto:bear@sonic.net] Enviado el: viernes, 05 de octubre de 2001 21:11 Para: Roger Rossell CC: suse-security@suse.com Asunto: RE: [suse-security] Virus scanner to detect macintosh viruses? On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Roger Rossell wrote:

how can virus affect my firewall? may i consider to install an anti-virus on it?

A virus can result in lot of infected windows machines, which will rain packets on your firewall in an attempt to find out whether it's another windows machine they can infect. They may also send malformed packets (the "ping of death", etc) from infected hosts, in an attempt to crash a badly implemented TCP stack. If you have windows machines behind your firewall, you will probably want to install virus-filtering stuff in your firewall to protect them. Bear