On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:18:57 +0100 "Dirk Heinrichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want > > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security > > fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on > > linux. > > The main purpose is to remove virae from _Windows_ drives. You boot > from a Linux LiveCD, like german c't magazin's "Knoppicillin", > mount your NTFS partition(s) and clean them. >
Or to catch & remove a virus before it reaches the Windows machines - say with a Linux file or email server on a network w/ Windows machines. Conway S. Smith -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
