On Sunday 02 January 2005 06:20, Graham Watkins wrote: > > Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use > > Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your > > email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who > > gets infected with a Worm which then tries to propagate to you. > > Erm, I'm not clear what you are trying to tell me here. Are you saying > that it's not really a problem if it's not a windows mail program that's > infected?
No, I was pointing out that you don't have to run Windows to end up on the receiving list of Windows viruses. You shouldn't assume that the virus notifications are Linux viruses simply because you run Linux. They are much more likely to be Windows viruses. And, a windows virus is not really a problem on a Linux machine and will not infect anything. > I'll look into this - thanks. Integrating with Postfix is not a problem > as I don't run it. But will it scan mails in Mozilla or Evolution? > Something that will seems to be my only chance of eradicating the > problem without actually having to trash my entire mailbox. Actually, if you have clamav installed, you should be able to run it from the CLI and have it quarantine the viruses in the messages themselves without any problem. Just tell it to scan the /var/spool/mail directory and it should pull them out. However, this is really unnecessary. All you need to do is simply delete the message that has the windows virus attachment. From within Linux. -- Bryan Phinney
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