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Re: [opensuse] clamav vs avg for linux
- From: dwain <dwain.alford@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:17:11 -0500
- Message-id: <46192397.1070807@xxxxxxxxx>
Jan Tiggy wrote:
> dwain wrote:
>
>
>> So are you then recommending that i use clamav? Is it a command line
>> program? I guess I can find the instructions in the man pages? Do I
>> access the man pages through the command line? Is the command /man/man?
>>
>
> There are only 3 purposes for using antivirus on linux I can think of at
> the moment:
>
> 1. Scanning emails, so you don't redistribute viruses or don't catch
> phishing mails.
> 2. Scanning files provided to Windows Clients via server (SAMBA)
> 3. Scanning files provided to Windows Clients via removable medias.
>
> Which antivirus you gonna use it's up to you.
>
> Thx
> Jan
>
Thanks, Jan. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Dwain
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> dwain wrote:
>
>
>> So are you then recommending that i use clamav? Is it a command line
>> program? I guess I can find the instructions in the man pages? Do I
>> access the man pages through the command line? Is the command /man/man?
>>
>
> There are only 3 purposes for using antivirus on linux I can think of at
> the moment:
>
> 1. Scanning emails, so you don't redistribute viruses or don't catch
> phishing mails.
> 2. Scanning files provided to Windows Clients via server (SAMBA)
> 3. Scanning files provided to Windows Clients via removable medias.
>
> Which antivirus you gonna use it's up to you.
>
> Thx
> Jan
>
Thanks, Jan. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Dwain
--
Dwain Alford
P.O. Box 145
Winfield, Alabama 35594
telephone: 205.487.2570
cellphone: 205.495.5619
"The artist may use any form which his expression demands;
for his inner impulse must find suitable expression."
Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"
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