> I stayed out of this business for a good reason, but wouldn't  clam-av
> on s390 primarily check for signatures of found PC virus code?  

It also looks for some of the more common script-kiddie and worm attacks
for Linux. Not very many, but then again, there aren't that many to look
for. 

> That
> would imply clam-av (and similar solutions) are meant to run on your
> mail server before passing e-mail attachments to your clients. Or
> maybe on a file server to nanny the end-users. We could certainly
> argue whether the mainframe is the most cost effective place to do
> this.

Violent agreement, I think. It's dumb, but this is a battle you don't
*have* to fight and it can be converted easily into an advantage, if
needed. 

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