(newbie) install/configuration question

Roger Frace roger.frace at PERSIDEA.COM
Mon Apr 12 20:11:02 IST 2004


On Apr 12, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Ugo Bellavance wrote:

>> -----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.

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl.

>
> 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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