personally I think that the perfect antivirus solution for windows, (apart from format or fdisk) would be if microsnot put a antivir function into the kernel, and outsourced just the pattern files..
Then the trend/symantec etc companies could just concentrate on supplying up to date pattern files for it instead of value adding crap to the interfaces they design.. having said that, my fav antivir solution is still to run the free Trend filescan for linux with trophie (a program that turns it into a fast memory resident daemon scanner) and amavis-new and spamassassin with postfix.. no virus's have gotten past this setup to date, and no spam gets to my users either.. I never hear from it (except when it catches a virus.).. it updates itself, scans several thousand emails a day and always just works. great stuff.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 3:05 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ? On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). > > Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I > browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that Micro$oft had > purchased RAV, a Romanian Antivirus Company. Accordingly, M$ > would discontinue the antivirus capabilities for Linux. I'm saddened by this move because all the Win-boxes that I do, I put RAV on them and it out performs everything except for Kaspersky - so it is a sad note I sing for my Windows customers as it's going to be a horrible time for them, and I figure that most of them will fall to the marketing bullshit and purchase Symantec, which is by far, one of the worst. (Who ever figured that 120mb of program would be necessary to stop a bug?) Meanwhile, rant is over... (and the plural for virus is virii) -- Sat Jun 14 17:00:00 EST 2003 17:00:00 up 1 day, 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.13, 0.06 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
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