-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:46 pm, Simon Perreault wrote: > On December 28, 2003 16:29, WA9ALS - John wrote: > > 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 - > > Viruses on Linux don't exist. There are some antivirus for Linux, but > these people are selling snake oil. No so. There has been at least one verified virus written specifically for Linux. I believe there is also one that exploits one version of Apache, but I believe that Apache has closed that exploit. With that said, if you are not a mailserver or Samba fileserver, you can probably do without a Virus Scanner. But...if you are a mailserver with Windows clients or a Samba server for Windows, then you do need a Virus Scanner to protect your Windows users. I use F-Prot and Mailscanner to screen all my inbound and outbound e-mails for virii. Mike W. - -- Registered Linux - 256979 (http://counter.il.org for more information) NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/71QG5fq6h2uDDlQRAsfSAKDn4QplSF1YRbe55wpfz8NUaM7PPgCg0pIL hWI72He3ayCZy8jzi03kkWk= =uw19 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
