[ale] Virus scan

[Keith R. Watson]

At 01:00 PM 12/16/2002 -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
>I was just curious to know if virus scan software was being used by anyone
>for Linux, and if so, what are the circumstances.
>
>My experience in the past w/ McAfee on Windows is that it's like a cheap
>radar detector I once owned that went off after I saw the police car! A
>waste of money and not very effective compared to other common sense things
>like don't drive so fast (or don't open files from strangers).
>
>Mike

Mike,

I like your radar detector analogy. I agree that 99% of anti-virus defense 
can be handled by simply modifying ones behavior however, there are 
circumstances where you would want to have a scanner.

1. If users are storing email and/or email attachments on the server
    and the client workstations are Windows based.

2. Users can store un-screened files on the server, especially Windows files.

If I'm the only user of a Linux workstation that isn't being used as a file 
server then I agree that "common sense", as you so eloquently put it, can 
easily handle the problem.

In my case I generally don't run anti-virus on Linux systems, then again 
any Linux systems I set up have a real sys admin as opposed to a user 
maintaining them.

keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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