From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 08:19:14 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 369E716A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54C743D39 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040312161913.HJEY5247.out014.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:19:13 -0600 Message-ID: <4051E360.9080109@mac.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:20:48 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:19:12 -0600 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 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 16:19:14 -0000 Chris wrote: > 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 use ClamAV instead, but same difference. The overwhelming majority of virus are Windows-based, agreed, which means that virus scanning is really useful if you are using your machine as a mail server or as a fileserver to Windows clients. You might find that doing the full system scan takes up a lot of resources for some time (possibly hours), but that probably only matters if you happen to want to use the machine for something else then. -- -Chuck