On 5 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:44, Adam Debus wrote:
> Because many linux machines are used as mail servers, and if you can stop
> the virus/worm before it gets to a windows box...
>
Then you're inappropriately increasing the load on a central machine
rather than decentralizing scanning to the desktop windows machine,
where it belongs.
From what I can tell with our anti-virus scanning programs.. we have a
much higher load with SPAM checkin stuff than we do with finding
viruses. The 3 virus checking software deal with several million emails
a day. Turning off the virus checking did not lower the load average any
noticeble amount as more was taken up with IO than CPU computation.
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