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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:20:48 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: F-Prot for BSD WorkStation
Message-ID:  <4051E360.9080109@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com>
References:  <200403120926.04419.racerx@makeworld.com>

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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.

-- 
-Chuck



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