Re: [OS:N:] Virus Protection?

[Lincoln Peters <sampln sbcglobal net>]

On Friday 12 August 2005 12:37 am, Vicki Morgan wrote:
> Coming from a Windows world, you would think the need for virus protection
> would have occurred to me earlier. FC4 on Server and Workstations; no mail
> or web server. Do we need protection? If yes, what?

I use clamav.  It's free, open-source, and it can detect Windows viruses as 
well as the rare Linux virus.  I don't know if it can actually clean a virus 
out of an infected system, but for most server applications, I think you'd be 
better off just deleting the infected files.

You can probably integrate clamav into your systems so that, e.g. you could 
automatically scan incoming mail, downloaded files, removable media, etc., 
but I haven't looked into this in any real detail.  Furthermore, such 
real-time virus protection seems to take a significant toll on the 
performance of a Windows PC, and I don't know how it would affect the 
performance of a Linux PC (I suspect the effect would be less severe but 
still there).


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Lincoln Peters
<sampln sbcglobal net>

Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one.