Yeah, clamav seems to pick up most of the popular windows viruses. Am currently using amavisd-new in combination with clamav for virus filtering and spamassassin for spam filtering. If you haven't checked it out yet, ask freshmeat about amavisd-new, it's deffinatly worth a look. Later >From Mitchell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <Kwatson at smed.yi.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:42 AM Subject: Re: Linux-and-Virus Programs? > I was thinking of installing clam antivirus on my box to run it kind > of like an smtp proxy for my winblows users. anyone used this program > before? > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Keith Watson wrote: > > Whoa Nellie! Bad advice. But I can see where the linux thought > > process came in. It don't matter what user you run an executable > > from under winblows, if it has a virus the whole system gets > > infected. My philosophy is thus, delete all unknown files from > > unknown sources. Better to be safe than sorry. > > > > > > Keith > > > > On 05:47 PM, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Why not just create a temp user and make that user the owner of this > > > file? Log in as that user and try to unzip the .exe. Maybe it's > > > something you want, and maybe it's junk. But you certainly won't trash > > > any system files this way. > > > > > > > > > Hart Larry writes: > > > > From: Hart Larry <chime at cts.com> > > > > > > > > Hi All: Some of my linux experts have told me I don't need to have any > > > > anti-virus programs. > > > > Reason I am asking is that I am sharing files on Mutella in Linux. While I was > > > > looking for Christmas dance music, I ended up with a file, which is an > > > > executeable. I don't know its content, but I hope its music. I would feel > > > > much better if I could scan it while in Linux before I run it from Jaws in > > > > win98. > > > > Are their any suggestions or speech friendly Linux virus programs I can run > > > > with speakup? > > > > Much earlier this year I had alot of trouble with backdoor viruses in windows. > > > > Thanks so much in advance > > > > Hart > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka > > > Email: janina at rednote.net > > > Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > > > Director, Technology Research and Development > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > http://www.afb.org > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > > > Free Standards Group > > > http://accessibility.freestandards.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Keith Watson > > kwatson at smed.yi.org > > > > Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant > > but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
