From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 12:12:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7F6114A21 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:12:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27029 invoked from network); 21 Oct 1999 19:12:21 -0000 Received: from userbk77.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.85) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 1999 19:12:21 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA00505; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:11:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:11:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: William Melanson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virus after install? Message-ID: <19991021201155.B341@marder-1> References: <002d01bf1be3$e2a12140$8457f7c7@manager.ssimicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:13:56PM -0400, William Melanson wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Allan Ross wrote: > > % > % Turn off boot sector scanning? I think not. Does it not make FAR more > % sense to have a representative of the FreeBSD team contact Symantec > % and request that they add the profile of booteasy to its database so > % that it is properly identified and reported? > % > > No... > > If the good people at Symantec are commercial vendors of said sotfware > (which of course they are). It is they who should take the liberty of > contacting the appropriate bsd representatives in regards to their > anti-virus, multi-platform functionality (or lac thereof). > This has come up before, about a month ago. In that thread someone appeared to be implying that they would contact Symantec. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message