[huskerlug] Re: antivirus

> If you have a mail server, for instance, it's a *very* good idea to have a
> virus scanner on it.  Not necessarily for the few linux viruses, but for
> the windows viruses that will otherwise be sent on their way to one or more
> windows machines .

And that is a very good reason to use it.  For a personal Linux work station, 
it's not such a big deal, but many Linux boxes are used as SMTP, HTTP, FTP, 
etc gateways, and virus scanning on these is a great benefit when your inside 
clients are running m$ products.

>
> Another scenario is if you are using samba.  Just because your linux
> machine isn't harmed by that file with the virus attached, the windows
> machine that grabs it from you is.

Another excellent reason.  Most environment aren't lucky enough to not have 
mickeysoft products, so you have to protect them as well.  We would like to 
become m$ free where I work, but there are some apps that just don't run yet 
on *nix.  I really hope we can convert to Linux workstations rather than 
upgrading to longhorn when the time requires, because that will be another 
security nightmare (SQL server integrated into the OS).


-- 
Steve Bremer
RHCE,CCNA
--
Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world 
mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds
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Available on key servers.

  


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