Re: Anti Virus Software for FC1

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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:35:11PM +0200, 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,

Scan the archives for samba questions.  LOTS of them.

> hardrive-space, bandwith OR labour on a anti-virus tool. If some idiot

Disk space is closing in on fifty cents US per gigabyte.   CPU cycles
continue to improve.

> sends him an infected email intended to spread trouhgout the outlook
> address book, it will simply just stop when it hits his evolution/etc.

We agreee.... still...

If you establish an account for a friend that uses MS
as I did recently...

Or you forward a message to a friend that uses MS.

Or tomorrow a virus targets evolution on Linux....

Or tomorrow a virus targets something else in Linux.

Or your work place puts a MS based box in front of you and you connect
via ssh to home bypassing some virus filtering tool they have in
place.

Or some other...

It took me a couple days to install clamav and clamav-milter and get
things setup to my satisfaction  (correctly I hope).  When a virus targets
Linux, as it will some day, it will be nice to have things setup in
advance.  I had the luxury of researching the topic and tool selection
over six months....  Now I can toggle it on and off with a simple pair of
chkconfig and service commands.

If we as a community work hard to limit our risks the 'bad boys' will
continue to go after other boxes.

Day zero attacks are a real risk.


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