include much needed antivirus products in FC2

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:46:27PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > You are making all sorts of dubious assumptions about the ability to manage the
> > decentralised boxes, that two layers of security is not good value, that you don't
> > want a central monitor of attack activity and so on.
> 
> Actually, the crux of this argument was whether AV software should be in
> Fedora Core.
> 
> Additionally I think scanning all mail for something which only affects
> some of the systems is:
> 1. enabling users to use unsafe programs
> 2. encouraging continued questionable practices
> 3. increasing the workload by duplicating effort.
>    - spend more time making your client control efforts work and less
> time upgrading the virus definitions on your mail server

That argument seems to be inversed. Unless you have a very small
amount of clients, you are always better off doing it serverside.

Or do you really chase your Laptop users to upgrade their systems?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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