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I use Sophos Antiviurs to scan all the file storage published to the
winsucks world. I plan to switch to Kapersky next year, since sophos is
such a PITA to support on multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, PC)

HTH
-Christoph Sold

"DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" schrieb:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Boddye-Murphy [mailto:jbone7@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:33 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Virus Control
> >
> >
> > Just a quick one...is there a particular anti-virus app that is more
> > compatable with Free-bsd than any of the others, or do you
> > affiliate or
> > endorse a particula program??
> > Thanks for your help
> 
> You must be thinking of Windows.  I don't think UNIX gets sick  :P
> 
> Really, unless through a root exploit (or the trojan program somehow gets
> run as root) there is nothing a virus can do to a UNIX system.
> 
> There are AV scanners available for sendmail servers in ports, I don't run
> sendmail so I can't comment on those but it may be more of what your looking
> for.
> 
> Gene Dinkey
> gder@gder.net
> 
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Christoph Sold
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