AntiVirus?
Paul Iadonisi
pri.rhl3 at iadonisi.to
Sat Mar 19 02:49:15 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 13:14 +1100, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote:
> Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:35:56AM +0000, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
> >
> >>Since Fedora is supposed to be a general purpose OS, are there any
> >>plans to add any type of AV software?
> >
> >
> > AV is the wrong solution to the problem.
> >
>
> Maybe so, but if you're using Fedora to 'serve' data for Windows boxes
> (eg. via Samba) then server based scanning can make sense and therefore
> requires an AV solution. Personally I use clamav.
Both Chuck and Geoff are correct, IMO. AV is the wrong solution to
the *alleged* future problem with Linux viruses. Go read
http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus for a good
debunking of that threat, as well as some good entertainment ;-).
But something like clamav to protect *Windows clients* in a GNU/Linux
based server environment does makes sense. At least until FOSS takes
over the world.
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-Paul Iadonisi
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Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
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