Re: Antivirus in Debian?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:10:47AM -0300, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote:
> I'm running Woody in my home computer, and i was wondering if it is a good
> idea to install an antivirus, if it is...what should i use? should i use it
> to scan mails and files? can someone give me some hints?
Well, it's not necessarily a bad idea, but unless you're serving files
to Windows machines or acting as a mail server there isn't much point.
Almost every virus or worm that a UNIX-based antivirus package scans for
is actually for Windows, since probably 99% of the virus/worm code out
there is for DOS/Windows or MS Office macros.
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Michael Heironimus
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