This last post could easily be misinterpreted because of some vague and ambiguous statements. The simple truth is that unless you are a system administrator running a linux based mail-server gateway to a network of M$-Windoze machines, and know exactly why you are running antivirus software on your linux mail-server, you are wasting your time running anti-virus software, period. There are, for any practical purpose, no true viruses for linux (the few that have been demonstrated are mostly theoretical, because they can't reproduce well enough to be a practical threat). Subscribe to your distribution's announce mailing list, and keep up with the free security updates that they post about, so that you will not have vulnerabilities on your system to non-virus network attacks and exploits (the type of bugs that show up on all operating systems). But don't worry about self replicating and propagating viruses, email or otherwise. If you want to know more about trojan horses, internet and email worms, and the like, and the technical details of such, and any debates about the proper terminology, risk factors, etc, subscribe to one of the many security related newsgroups and mailing lists. Also, there is a linux Security HOWTO. LCR On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:42:41 -0000, Michael > Weaver wrote: > > If I were to purchase a PC running only Linux, > > should I still have anti-virus software as I have > > heard that you don't get as many Virus attacks > > under Linux? > > Yes, its right that there aren't many viruses for > linux till now. But depending on the services running > on your linux-pc scanning for viruses makes sence. I > get very ofthen emailworms for example so I decided > to filter my mails for viruses, allthough the worms > aren't dangeros on my linux-pc. Also I have ofthen to > send files that I got via mail to other people. Maybe > one of this files contains a virus..., if I don't > scan this files I could distribute a virus allthough > I work under linux. > > > If so which software is easy to install with speech > > and easy to operate for example when updating the > > Virus definitions? > > I made good experiences with antivir and f-prot, both > scanners work on linuxsystems: > > http://www.antivir.com http://www.complex.is > > Especialy antivir has a good autoupdating-function. A > good interface to scan incomming and outgoing emails > is amavis, it works with sendmail and postfix and > f-prot or antivir can be used as virusscanners: > > http://amavis.org > > Ciao, Schoeppi > > -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html