Anti Virus Software for FC1

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:35, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:29:12PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > 
> > You probably knew already, but you really don't need anti-virus for
> > Linux - The developers acctually closes the holes the viruses are
> > crawling throug, instead of creating a market by letting 3. parties
> > create programs which serach and destroy them AFTER they got into the
> > system...
> 
> Still it is a good idea to install such a tool.
> No point in being a carrier.
> 
> --------
> 
> Yeah, point taken. But unless he is intending to run a file server for
> Windows-clients there is no need to spend money, CPU, Memory,
> hardrive-space, bandwith OR labour on a anti-virus tool. If some idiot
> sends him an infected email intended to spread trouhgout the outlook
> address book, it will simply just stop when it hits his evolution/etc.
> 
> Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk


One of the other things that you can do, is to use SpamAssassin to
filter MS Executables attached to incoming e-mail. I use SA with Evo and
have the following in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs:

score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5.0

This can then catch these beasties and you can decide what you want to
do with them (ie. move to a spam folder or just delete them).

HTH,

Marc Schwartz