On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:53 PM, John Summerfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What do you think needs the protection of AV software? (I'm not having a
> shot at you, your answer goes to define the kind of information you
> need: my choice of motor vehicle is a little unusual, and it's probably
> not suitable for you, but it fills my needs quite nicely. And so for AV
> software.)

Or maybe even *who* needs to be protected. If you want to use Linux on
z/VM to scan your corporate e-mail that gets delivered to PC users
running Outlook on Windows, then look at the functional aspects first,
because it is a different scenario than scanning the workstation
itself for infected files. Something like ClamAV could fit in there
(but whether it makes sense from a business point of view to run this
on the mainframe, that's an entirely different issue...)

If you need to address the corporate directive that "every system must
run a virus scanner" then maybe you should wait for the z/VM Virus
Scanner to be ported to Linux on z/VM  ;-)
-Rob

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