From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 18:42:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6F514F2D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA28365; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:11:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA08330; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:11:42 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990303131142.U441@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:11:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Laurence Berland Cc: "The Varney's" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: H.S. networking (beginners) References: <000701be6509$2fc67980$41c494cd@KingKong> <19990303115627.Q441@lemis.com> <36DC9FEC.80DBBB5@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36DC9FEC.80DBBB5@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:35:24PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 21:35:24 -0500, Laurence Berland wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> >> >>> 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