On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:03, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > Hi Hetz, > > I am no expert, but i think that if you only want to check the viruses that > > goes thru your email, you don't need any vxd to simply check the mail like > > avx does. > > what do you think? > > Morning Tzahi, > > This is really depends - the biggest problem with Lindows wine and Outlook > 2000 for example is that when Outlook runs - you don't really have any > control of it so much - you can start it, freeze it (^Z), stop it, kill it - > but if a virus got in - you're in trouble.. > > Lets imagine this thing - you're sending me by accident a virus which doesn't > even requires me to open the mail - preview is enough. Now (for this example) > I use Outlook 2000 and (lets say) I'm a dumb user - the moment I get your > email - my machine starts spitting out mails with viruses like a machine gun!. > > Now - just like in standard windows - if I have a good Anti virus here > running on wine - then I'm free from troubles - but as it is today - I cannot > install any anti virus (that I know) under Wine - so it's a huge risk.
Conclusion: Don't install outlook on that machine. You know a couple of other mail clients. Alternatively: if it is only pop3 mail you want to protect then either: 1. install a virus scanner on the server 2. Emulate an anti-virus "pop3 proxy": grab mail to localhost with fetchmail, scan it, and serve it through pop3. I still can't follow their logic: why would you buy a dedicated lindows box if their linux side is bad and their windows side is bad. Seems to me it will be useful for either: 1. windows users who don't know linux better 2. windows users, on a dedicated machine You don't strike me as (1), and if you have (2): what's the point in making this a linux machine? In short: I don't see who is their target audience. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
