Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:11:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: "The Varney's" <KingKong@madbbs.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: H.S. networking (beginners) Message-ID: <19990303131142.U441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36DC9FEC.80DBBB5@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:35:24PM -0500 References: <000701be6509$2fc67980$41c494cd@KingKong> <19990303115627.Q441@lemis.com> <36DC9FEC.80DBBB5@confusion.net>
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On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 21:35:24 -0500, Laurence Berland wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> <SNIP> >> >>> An antivirus program >> >> FreeBSD doesn't have viruses, so it doesn't have anti-virus programs. >> I believe some people offer virus scanners for Email destined to >> Microsoft machines, but I can't say much about them. > > Perhaps I am not clear on whatt you mean. Does it not have them > because no one writes them, or is it truly virus-proof? I don't suppose any system is *truly* virus-proof, modulo your definition of virus. But most viruses on Microsoft platforms exploit conceptual weaknesses that FreeBSD does not have. For example, I couldn't think of any way to write a virus that is transferred by mail. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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