Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:43:44 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com> Cc: Eric Lam <ecrim@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD System Utilities? Message-ID: <20010820004344.N2048@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <000101c1286c$e7b28560$6ea145ca@rino>; from rmardo@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:37:34PM %2B0800 References: <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBCEGGCBAA.ecrim@earthlink.net> <000101c1286c$e7b28560$6ea145ca@rino>
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:37:34PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > 1. fsck is all you need and it's run when needed or you can call it manually > too 1.1 You do not need to "de-frag" your Unix disks. :) > 2. there are no virus problems with *nix. 2.1 There have been a few computer viruses, mostly worms, written for Unix. There have been more of these lately, specifically targetting Linux. The nature of Unix security tends to make these things have a much much harder time of doing much reasonable damage, but that doesn't mean they can't and don't exist. 2.2 Sophos Anti-Virus offer their SWEEP program on a wide variety of Unix platforms. This is handy more for scanning for Windows viruses on your file / email server, per se, but it is nice to know that they are there. I have been quite pleased with this anti-virus vendor. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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