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Mike Watson wrote: | 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.
Well using postfix mime-check capbility I opted out of the whole virus game altogether:
/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks:
/name=[^>]*\.(ade|adp|asd|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dbx|dll|exe|hlp|hta|inf|ins|isp|lnk|js|jse|lnk|ocx|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|ops|pcd|pi|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr|sct|shb|shm|shs|swf|uue|vb|vbe|vbs|vbx|vxd|wab|wsc|wsf|wsh)/ REJECT Potentially dangerous file attachment
/name=[^>]*your_details.zip/ REJECT your email appears to be infected with the Sobig virus. Please see http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.e@xxxxxxx
Using these filters the crap is stopped at the smtp port.
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