nathan r. hruby wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
No, but to get back on track, linux (and MacOSX and Solaris, etc..) can be
placed into a Typhiod Mary situation on a local network, distributing viri
laden files either over samba, ftp, http, nntp, etc.. whatever they're
serving. Since one of the things that people want to do with linux is
make it work with other OS'es I think having some form of AV product in
Core (and alternatives in Extras) makes sense.
I agree with this. All of my RH8/9/FC1 servers are deployed in school
districts where they're doing the beard and butter Samba/Netatalk for
all the windows and macs. With teachers bringing in floppies *yeah,
it's old school, but change is difficult* and cd's, I've had problems
with virii getting back on the network. We've finally got anti-virus on
all desktops now, so virii in the home directories "should" be going
away/gone, BUT, if I can check all home directories with a quick
piece-of-mind scan on my servers, that's something I want to do.
Eric Feldhusen