Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
years without it. What say you? Jeff
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On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:18 -0700, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
Jeff, if you've used OSX for years without antivirus software, then
you'll probably be comfortable running Fedora without it too
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 20:18:37 Jeffrey Engle wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
If you serve windows boxes, for instance as a mail server, then you need AV to
protect them. So far there has been no need for
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:18:37 -0700,
Jeffrey Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
You might want it to filter email on a mail server so messages don't get
read by users on machines whe
Jeffrey Engle wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
>
I hope you mean anti-virus software. If you use Samba serve files to
Windows machines, then an anti-virus program to scan the Windows
shares can be handy. There are
Jeffrey Engle schrieb:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
>
I think, I might be a good idea to have a mail virus scanner for
detecting system independed toxic things like phishing emails or
something like that.
HTH,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeffrey Engle wrote:
>> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
>> years without it. What say you? Jeff
>>
> I hope you mean anti-virus software. If you use Samba serve files to
> Windows
Jeffrey Engle wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
There is a school of thought that says both traditional viruses and
traditional anti-virus are becoming obsolete. Malware is changing, and
traditional anti-virus is
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Jeffrey Engle wrote:
> Is virus software a must have? I'm trying Fedora 9, used Mac OS X for
> years without it. What say you? Jeff
linux says, 'we don't need no stinking anti-virus software'.
for some more info as to security of linux, other than v
