From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 18:37:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F57B37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fB72bDj49159; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:37:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 21:37:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <007a01c17e14$71a99770$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <007a01c17e14$71a99770$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:11:19 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Are virus scanners really worth the effort on FreeBSD? Just don't open = e-mail attachments in Outlook Sorry, I dont trust my users to do that. I dont think any administrator should. You are just asking for trouble if you leave security and safety up to individual users. There will always be a few heard to say, "What a lovely wooden horse, just bring it right in" ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message