>>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:41 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan
Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> I will admit my ignorance on how signatures are created, however, so I
> could be wrong. :-)

Files don't have to be executed for an AV engine to recognize it.  The file 
just needs to be opened for input or output, and the engine scans the file 
before letting the transaction to continue.  So, if anyone is doing file 
serving from Linux on System z, AV scanning is a "must have" if the clients are 
running Windows.  I ran into this situation a number of times at EDS.  The 
platform hosting the files isn't necessarily the issue, it's the clients that 
usually are the issue.


Mark Post

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