The emailserver is fine, it just passes it on to the windows clients that it serves. A regular pain without shadow of a doubt. The emailserver has never been compromised but that doesn't mean that you can be lax about it. A couple of sendmail security probs this last year mean you can't be complacent. Out of office peeps are the ones who have caught me out with virus problems and that is being addressed. Long term i'm looking at one on the gateway to snag viruses and a company policy for the guys out and about that use dial-up and a bit of common sense :-) HTH Bry ----- Original Message ----- From: "WA9ALS - John" <ham_reflectors@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 9:29 PM Subject: Speaking of viruses > Another naive question from a Linux newbie - Are you guys all running > antivirus software on your Fedora box? I've had some pretty knowledgeable > Linux guys tell me it's unnecessary - Could that be correct? I understand > that Linux is inherently less susceptible to system-wide problems that can > be more easily spread on a Windows machine. Give me a clue - Do I need > Linux antivirus, and if so, what's generally accepted as the best? Tnx - > John www.wa9als.com > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
