On Wednesday 09 July 2008 19:11:27 Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:21:55 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
This is why they're just not a problem here. They can not proliferate like that.
So of course it makes sense to let the infected files lie dormant until someone uses a system like Windows to access them.
This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but what do I know - I've only been using computers for nearly 30 years now.
And in all those years, have you ever come across any system other than windows that needed a virus scanner? I don't believe symantec does on-access scanning for the S/390 either, and the Sun machines in the world seems to have gotten along fine without it Let's face facts, shall we: you have been thoroughly indoctrinated by your windows experiences, and now you want to take that along with you. It's just not needed Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org