you don't need to worry about windows virus's damaging your linux install,
however, if you have an infected file on your linux box and you retrive that
file for windows, you can infect your windows install..
if you want to protect windows clients from virus's coming through your
linux gateway, I suggest you read up on amavis
www.amavis.org
that should answer your questions, I am in the middle of trying to set this
up myself.
rgds
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of alan
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 2:58 AM
To: [newbie]
Subject: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Hi All
All this talk of viruses is getting to me.
Which virus programme do I need, if any at all. Here is my system:
My machine - stand alone mdk8.0, at home, dialup isp. Using kmail with
direct
pop connection to isp to retreive mail and direct smtp connection, in this
case to <mail.metroweb.co.za> to send mail. The same system is used if I use
Netscape. No virus programme is used. M$Win98 on hda, mdk8.0 on hdb.
# The anti virus programmes, it seems to me, are used in conjuction with
fetchmail/postfix/sendmail/qmail/procmail/etc where the mail is intercepted
before being received or sent. Am I right in this assumption?
# If I am wrong then what is the most efficient way to set up kmail or
netscape direct dial system to incorporate virus protection for my linux sys
and as a secondary consideration, my M$Win98 sys
I do have Win98 on my first hd that I occasionally access via linux to
retrieve files or archive mdk files. Sometimes I use Win98 directly. I do
not
access the internet form my M$Win98 drive (at the present).
# Is it possible for a Win virus to migrate to the win98 hda when accessing
it using a file manager assuming that I do not directly copy an email or
attachment to the Win98 hd?
# If I did want to copy the contents of an email to the M$win hd would it be
okay if the contents where copied to a text file and the text file copied
across for use in say Corel WP8, I do not use M$ Office at all, at all!
# Recently however I archived my kmail and netscape 'mail box' on the win98
hda whilst I changed the file sys over to reisersFS - could a problem arise
in a case like this?
Sorry for the verbosity but I sometimes think that I have all straightened
up
in my mind when one of the mails on the list says, "/var/spool/mail/ . . . ,
then I know that the list is talking about something else and not a direct
connection to the Internet from the mail programme.
Thanks and regards
Alan Smith
PS just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly?
