(newbie) install/configuration question

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Mon Apr 12 20:03:51 IST 2004


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Roger Frace [mailto:roger.frace at PERSIDEA.COM] 
> Envoyé : 12 avril, 2004 15:01
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: (newbie) install/configuration question
> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Kevin Spicer wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiousity why aren't you using a virus scanner?
> 
> a> don't own one, and no budget to purchase one.

Get ClamAV.  Free and free.

NAV is slow on updates...

> b> with the exception of 2 people, everyone in my office is on a Mac,
> and all our servers are Linux. The .pif files are actually just an
> annoyance, not a threat. The 2 Windows machines are running local
> copies of NAV.
> 
> MailScanner was the best open source solution I could find in my
> semi-brief search to do something about these .pif and .scr Windows
> viruses. One guy in my office received just over 400 emails 
> as a result
> of these viruses over the weekend. What a pain.  Some filtering is
> better than no filtering, for sure.
> 
> -Roger
> 




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