Speaking of viruses

Steven Stern sds-email-list at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 28 22:19:24 UTC 2003


On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:29:01 -0500, "WA9ALS - John"
<ham_reflectors at wa9als.com> wrote:

>Another naive question from a Linux newbie - Are you guys all running
>antivirus software on your Fedora box?  I've had some pretty knowledgeable
>Linux guys tell me it's unnecessary - Could that be correct?  I understand
>that Linux is inherently less susceptible to system-wide problems that can
>be more easily spread on a Windows machine.  Give me a clue - Do I need
>Linux antivirus, and if so, what's generally accepted as the best?  Tnx -
>John  www.wa9als.com

I'm using F-Prot to scan the directories shared via SAMBA to Windows machines,
but am not scanning the Linux-only areas.





More information about the users mailing list