On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:46:03PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:44, Adam Debus wrote:
> Because many linux machines are used as mail servers, and if you can stop
> the virus/worm before it gets to a windows box...
>
Then you're inappropriately increasing the load on a central machine
rather than decentralizing scanning to the desktop windows machine,
where it belongs.
You are making all sorts of dubious assumptions about the ability to manage the
decentralised boxes, that two layers of security is not good value, that you don't
want a central monitor of attack activity and so on.