On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > How necessary is virus protection in linux _____________________
Ones purpose may be prophylactic [ greek word for 'preventive' ]~ to prevent accidental transmission of virus, perhaps, by inadvertently 'forwarding' an infected message. For this purpose one may edit 'crontab' and add a tiny script, to run a scan on ones Mail directories. crontab -e [ will open crontab, in vim, so one can add/delete at will ] For this purpose, my CRON Daemon runs F-PROT each hour, to scan my Mail directories. best rgds ________
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