From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 11:00:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E626106566B for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:00:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from lhscloud01.localhostservices.net (lhscloud01.localhostservices.net [83.222.226.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EC98FC15 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from client-82-26-202-194.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com ([82.26.202.194] helo=catflap.slightlystrange.org) by lhscloud01.localhostservices.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SuiHM-000JGW-T0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:00:21 +0100 Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.80 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SuiHL-0000mY-7e for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:00:19 +0100 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:00:19 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120727110019.GB4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <20120727104308.GA4834@catflap.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: On-access AV scanning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:00:22 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:04PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >Are there any current options available to support on-access antivirus > >scanning on FreeBSD? > > > FreeBSD doesn't need this as there are no viruses on that system. Well, thanks. >=20 > >And yes, I know that neither FreeBSD nor Solaris are renowned for their > >sickly vulnerability to viruses, but we operate in a mixed environment, = with > >a lot of Windows machines and ZFS file systems exported by SMB/CIFS, so = we > >need the AV to ensure any viruses are stopped before they infect a > >susceptible machine. It seems a small price to pay to finally get a dec= ent > >workstation! > No idea - YOU will not spread wiruses, and viruses from other > winstations will not affect you. >=20 > so just install antivirus software on winstations. >=20 > Or finally educate users as it is really simple to avoid viruses > even with windows I refer you to the part where I specifically talk about our corporate IT policy. All desktops/workstations (that is, all of them, every single one), must have AV software running on them. There will be no exceptions, on pain of dismissal. I don't want to lose my job, because you said I didn't need AV software. --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlASdMMACgkQixf5fBYiFmosFwCgpTrS0pWww3XXe+DD3rcFrg+e RaQAnRSJNwioDmbmv8XFcVTibERTBY8e =IDNm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--