From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 07:26:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA61C16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (chcgil2-ar9-4-60-214-019.chcgil2.dsl-verizon.net [4.60.214.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E0A43D1D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:26:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (racerx@evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2CFQ5SR093511 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:26:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) From: Chris To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:26:04 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:26:10 -0000 I installed F-Prot (/usr/ports/security/f-prot) last night and have it updating the virus dat via /etc/periodic/daily and have it set to do a complete system scan under /etc/periodic/weekly. So far the nightly dat update works well - my real question is simply this - Has anyone used this port? Is it really something that needs to be added since the majority of virii are Windows based. I would like to hear users opinions on this. The good, bad and ugly. -- Best regards, Chris