[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Nic Cave-Lynch]

Hi all

I've finally made the leap to a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6). I'm currently 
going through the painful business of replacing all my key applications.

One thing though: what about virus scanning, particularly of email? I've got a 
license for AVG for Linux, so that can do the periodic file scans, but incoming 
mail??? AVG seems to require some arrangement with postfix or sendmail or 
similar, and will then scan as mail gets picked up by those. I just use 
Thunderbird and Opera for mail, and they pick up from the pop3 machines at 
various ISPs. That doesn't seem to fit the AVG model.

Sooo: am I just thinking about mail virus scanning the wrong way, (maybe I 
should just assume that Linux doesn't have mail viruses so I don't need to 
worry: seems risky)? Or should I go the postfix route and use AVG like that 
(though I can't quite get my head around what I need to do to make that work)? 
Or is there some other virus scanning solution that I should be looking at? Or 
something else entirely?

What do other people do? Any suggestions/comments?

Cheers

Nic C-L