Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:36:45 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation Message-ID: <200403121036.45593.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <4051E360.9080109@mac.com> References: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com> <4051E360.9080109@mac.com>
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On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Chris wrote: > > So far the nightly dat update works well - my real question is simply > > this - Has anyone used this port? Is it really something that needs to be > > added since the majority of virii are Windows based. > > I use ClamAV instead, but same difference. The overwhelming majority of > virus are Windows-based, agreed, which means that virus scanning is really > useful if you are using your machine as a mail server or as a fileserver to > Windows clients. > > You might find that doing the full system scan takes up a lot of resources > for some time (possibly hours), but that probably only matters if you > happen to want to use the machine for something else then. I also use ClamAV. If resource utilization is an issue, the scanning strategy could be changed to scan only email and /home areas frequently. Full system scans could be scheduled less frequently and during periods of low utilization. Best regards, Andrew Gouldhelp
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