> > I'm looking around for open source virus protection software, I saw > > MailScanner-4.23-11 but it seams that it needs additional 3rd party > > software to "eliminate" the viruses. Anybody know of others? > > Linux does not need virus protection, really. That's an MS specific > problem.
Absolutely incorrect. From my box, when I check out the number of virii that I am protected from by f-prot: [EMAIL PROTECTED] benjamin]$ f-prot -virno SIGN.DEF created 9 October 2003 SIGN2.DEF created 9 October 2003 MACRO.DEF created 6 October 2003 DOS/Windows: 25681 viruses and 40737 Trojans Word/Excel: 7961 viruses and Trojans Java: 2 viruses and 124 Trojans BAT: 2070 viruses and Trojans IRC INI: 1176 viruses and Trojans Script: 3662 viruses and Trojans INF: 5 viruses and Trojans Unix shell: 242 viruses and Trojans Ami: 2 viruses and Trojans WinBat: 4 viruses and Trojans PIF: 19 viruses and Trojans PalmOS: 4 viruses and Trojans PHP: 11 viruses and Trojans Unix: 266 viruses and Trojans In addition, over 15750 viruses are identified using generic identification, so the total number of viruses and Trojans known to F-PROT is somewhere over 97700. Notice the word "Unix" above... Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
