On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 23:02, riccardo wrote: > 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
Is that a kind of script a simple newbie like me can use? :-) Rosemary > ________
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