From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 4: 0:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7E037B405 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 04:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0MC0VX47173; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:00:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C4D5464.2020203@rambo.simx.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:00:36 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: daverk@epix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virus scanner References: <200201221141.g0MBfovv001177@bean.epix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dave Kaufman wrote: >is there a recommended virus scanner for freebsd? and for that matter how >necessary is it for a stand alone home unit running freebsd 4.4 Release? it's >a dual boot to Win98 where i have Norton running. i realise that won't >protect the freebsd side but how much protection does the freebsd side need? > >thanks >Dave > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > AFAIK, there is not a single virus out there that has any effect on a FreeBSD machine. The only reason I know to run antivirus on FreeBSD is on mailservers, to protect the poor windows lusers from getting virus in their Outlook Express inbox. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message