[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Mark Foster]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Jethro Carr wrote:

> 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.

As a matter of interest how regularly do people get viruses via email 
these days?

Dunno about you lot but they're far from the biggest email problem that I 
see these days.

And I don't run antivirus on either my MTA or my desktops (be they windows 
or not).  Only time i've been caught out in years is when I let someone 
else use my PC!!

Mark.