include much needed antivirus products in FC2

[Stephen Smoogen]

On 5 Jan 2004, 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.

>From what I can tell with our anti-virus scanning programs.. we have a 
much higher load with SPAM checkin stuff than we do with finding 
viruses. The 3 virus checking software deal with several million emails 
a day. Turning off the virus checking did not lower the load average any 
noticeble amount as more was taken up with IO than CPU computation.

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