AntiVirus?

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 13:14 +1100, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote:
> Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:35:56AM +0000, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
> > 
> >>Since Fedora is supposed to be a general purpose OS, are there any
> >>plans to add any type of AV software?
> > 
> > 
> > AV is the wrong solution to the problem.
> > 
> 
> Maybe so, but if you're using Fedora to 'serve' data for Windows boxes 
> (eg. via Samba) then server based scanning can make sense and therefore 
> requires an AV solution.  Personally I use clamav.

  Both Chuck and Geoff are correct, IMO.  AV is the wrong solution to
the *alleged* future problem with Linux viruses.  Go read
http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus for a good
debunking of that threat, as well as some good entertainment ;-).
  But something like clamav to protect *Windows clients* in a GNU/Linux
based server environment does makes sense.  At least until FOSS takes
over the world.
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