Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 17:54, SigmaX wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >>> How necessary is virus protection in linux > > Not very. There are very few viruses or worms that are out there (That > work) for UNIX-based systems. It's reported that there has n

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
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 v

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-04 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
; To: > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:02 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 > > > > > > >> How necessary is virus protection in linux - keep getting conflicting > >> info > >> about this? > >> > >> Thanks > >>

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread SigmaX
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux Not very. There are very few viruses or worms that are out there (That work) for UNIX-based systems. It's reported that there has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X.

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread et
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:59 pm, riccardo wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:52 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > If you don't like using vim, you can set EDITOR to your editor of > > choice > > _ > > JOE [joe] is nice ~ similar to WordStar, i believe. > > b

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread riccardo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:52 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > If you don't like using vim, you can set EDITOR to your editor of > choice _ JOE [joe] is nice ~ similar to WordStar, i believe. best rgds ___ __

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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'

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:41, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > How necessary is virus protection in linux - keep getting conflicting info > about this? Much better in Linux to focus on updating your packages, getting patches for vulnerabilities and keeping a general watch on security versus was

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread riccardo
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 m

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread Dennis
Thanks Kasper --- Dennis "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Registered Linux User #382526 - Original Message - From: "Kasper Thunoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-03 Thread Kasper Thunoe
> > How necessary is virus protection in linux - keep getting conflicting info > about this? > > Thanks > Rosemary > Depends on how much you interact with windows :) There are "viruses" for linux which mostly come in the form of rootkits. This is more a backdoor than it is a virus, and the a

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
tered Linux User #382526 > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:11 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 > > > > > Dennis wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread riccardo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:58 am, Dennis wrote: > Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux > 10.1? _ for home, non-commercial use : F-PROT www.f-prot.com made in Iceland ~ very good :) best rgds __

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 8:58 pm, Dennis wrote: > Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? I have found that all virus emails are getting trapped with spamassassin/razor/pyzor working for me. Its like living in a spam free, virus free world. Rob -- Linux User

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:11 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 > > > Dennis wrote: > >> Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? > > > > What are you looking

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Dennis
11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? What are you looking for? Something runs under Linux to scan your Windows partition, or something for a mail server to scan email attachments? Or are you looking for so

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? What are you looking for? Something runs under Linux to scan your Windows partition, or something for a mail server to scan email attachments? Or are you looking for something to scan your Linux system? Mikkel

[newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Thread Dennis
Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1?   ---Dennis "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Registered Linux User #382526