Virus software? do I need it?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Aug 27 19:34:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:18:37 -0700,
  Jeffrey Engle <macguy47 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for  
> years without it. What say you? Jeff

You might want it to filter email on a mail server so messages don't get
read by users on machines where they are more likely to be a problem.
If you aren't running a mail server and are asking about desktop use,
then no you don't want to use a virus scanner.
SELinux (along with better designed apps) is a better approach to dealing
with that kind of malware.




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