[wellylug] email virus scanners

[Nic Cave-Lynch]

I got a few virus emails last year: didn't cause any problems (in fact they just 
made me feel smug that I'd caught them before they caused problems...) Nothing 
this year that I remember

Mark Foster wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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