include much needed antivirus products in FC2

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 11:15, Eric Feldhusen wrote:
> 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.
> 

No one is saying you can't do this! The only thing I've been saying is
that Antivirus for OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS does NOT belong in Core. It
should be in extras, certainly but not in core.

-sv