[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 09:58 +1300, Nic Cave-Lynch wrote:
> 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?

hi Nick,

for a normal Linux desktop user, there is no need to scan for viruses,
because Linux doesn't have any (well, there are some, but these are
proof-of-concept ideas and are not really counted).

There are anti-virus system available for Linux, but these products are
typically aimed at people running their own email servers (eg: ISPs) to
prevent Windows viruses being sent via the mail server.


What Cliff suggested would work, but setting up your own email server is
a bit more complex and is really overkill for what you want to do.

cheers,
-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/pipermail/wellylug/attachments/20061228/a645c313/attachment.pgp