[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 18:21 -0800, Brent Wood wrote:
> For your purposes, as Jethro suggests, there is probably no real neeed for a
> virus scanner. However, using the "nice neighbour" approach to computing it is
> probably a good idea to still have a virus filter so at least you don't
> propagate Windows viruses to those unfortunate enough to still be vulnerable to
> 
> them :-)
> 
> Most Linux virus filters will detect Windows viruses in emails & allow you to
> dispose of them, instead of perhaps forwarding them.
> 
> Being the cause of a virus in a friend's PC is not a nice thing to do, even if
> your system isn't vulnerable to them. 

although I would say it serves them right for using windoze. :-P


It's really up to you - Most ISPs filter emails for viruses these days
so it's unlikely you will get sent one. And anyone on Windows should
have anti-virus installed to protect themselves anyway.


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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