In order for an AV program to work effectively, you really have to
update the definition database very frequently (current norm is every 4
hours). I don't think "you" (in a generic sense) can expect an average
Windows user to stick to this necessary discipline.
I don't know if anyone still remembers this. About 3~4 years when the
so-called Hawaii High-Tech Assoc. was formed, Governor Ben's high-tech
Czar Mr. Joe Blanco sent every founding member an e-mail with a deadly
virus which, rumor has it, devastated at least half of the PCs ownd by
members of Hawaii's high-tech community. (The virus was deadly b/c it
was too new to be included in the definition database of any of the AV
programs.) It didn't affect me at all because I was running Linux
(Corel Linux at that time).
Some of my friends in the mainland were talking about a Linux AV program
called Exim:
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=526
I don't know anything about it, but will really appreciate it if you
could kindly try it and let us know what's going on. :-)
TIA.
wayne
Rodney Kanno wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good virus scanner program? I guess I'd like one
that scans incoming e-mail (i'm using evolution) & all files?
TIA,
Rodney
