jludwig wrote:
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:29 pm, Will Yardley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Does linux really need antivirus? I have been googleing this for close
to an hour and came to the conclusion that this is only nessacary for
linux IF there is a mailserver delivering mail to a windows box
Well, receiving viruses can be a nuisance whether or not the virus can
do anything bad to you or not.
w
And there is always the possibility of passing them on.
IMHO, if you can stop a virus or trojan or whatever, do it. As was
said above, you could pass it on. I always download to a quarantine
directory and run clamscan on it. Irun all of my mail through
clamav/milter, bogofilter and spamassassin. The odds of me passing on
a virus is fairly remote. It eats a few CPU cycles, but it's well worth
it.
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