Antivirus in FC3?

[Rick Stevens]

jludwig wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2005 05:29 pm, Will Yardley wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>>>Does linux really need antivirus? I have been googleing this for close
>>>to an hour and came to the conclusion that this is only nessacary for
>>>linux IF there is a mailserver delivering mail to a windows box
>>
>>Well, receiving viruses can be a nuisance whether or not the virus can
>>do anything bad to you or not.
>>
>>w
> 
> And there is always the possibility of passing them on.

IMHO, if you can stop a virus or trojan or whatever, do it.  As was
said above, you could pass it on.  I always download to a quarantine
directory and run clamscan on it.  Irun all of my mail through
clamav/milter, bogofilter and spamassassin.  The odds of me passing on
a virus is fairly remote.  It eats a few CPU cycles, but it's well worth
it.
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