On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:35, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:29:12PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > > You probably knew already, but you really don't need anti-virus for > > Linux - The developers acctually closes the holes the viruses are > > crawling throug, instead of creating a market by letting 3. parties > > create programs which serach and destroy them AFTER they got into the > > system... > > Still it is a good idea to install such a tool. > No point in being a carrier. > > -------- > > Yeah, point taken. But unless he is intending to run a file server for > Windows-clients there is no need to spend money, CPU, Memory, > hardrive-space, bandwith OR labour on a anti-virus tool. If some idiot > sends him an infected email intended to spread trouhgout the outlook > address book, it will simply just stop when it hits his evolution/etc. > > Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk One of the other things that you can do, is to use SpamAssassin to filter MS Executables attached to incoming e-mail. I use SA with Evo and have the following in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs: score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5.0 This can then catch these beasties and you can decide what you want to do with them (ie. move to a spam folder or just delete them). HTH, Marc Schwartz
