include much needed antivirus products in FC2

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Tue Jan 6 21:22:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 13:53, seth vidal wrote:
> > The clamav peopel do their own definitions. I think you are using too
> > old experiences/biases for your side of the argument. I think that if
> > you spent a week or so studying it.. you could come up with much better
> > arguments.
> 
> My arguments are based on the relative success the people I've worked
> with have had with clamav actually screening newer viruses.
> 
> 

Sorry I was going for humour.. it failed. I think that the 90% rule for
doing email virus scanning would be better handled by including
something like mimedefang. I am trying to figure out the Fedora
packaging rules to see what changes would be needed to make Roaring
Penguins package work with it.

> > Hmmm... just because samba and other windows tools have been there for X
> > years in the distro.. should they remain there? I actually consider this
> > a legit question.
> 
> sure, go for it, remove them, oh, except that nautilus uses them, oh and
> smbfs mounting in the kernel. hmm and what else?
> 

Well then that would be a reason to keep it. Just trying to figure out
what cruft could go.

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