-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-10-20 at 11:16 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Those of us that have never used an anti-virus program on Linux and brag to their MS friends that they don't need to wonder why on Linux one is needed?
Why have the extra overhead on the machine?
Perhaps they are serving mail to a windoz machine/s
I want to satisfy my curiosity about the virii family name of the executables I get every day in spam - all virii, of course ;-) It is certainly faster and equally safe to simply reject executables with amavis-new. Well, may not: there are macros in things like doc files. Then, there are those holding samba shares for windows machines, they also may want to check those files. There is a kernel thing from antivir to check any new file as soon as it is created. Never used it, though, can't comment on it. Then, there is wine: you can execute windows' programs and get infected there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFOO8ftTMYHG2NR9URAiX5AJwMx/wF4TQF6kwNowBGP3eu+khqngCfct96 /W8VmMwUHjVC+Am3C9xGvD8= =8v4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----