Re: Anti-virus for Linux - is it time? Will it ever be?

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Re: Anti-virus for Linux - is it time? Will it ever be?

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:56 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Mike Garfias wrote:
>
> > Huh?
> >
> > I've got 100+ servers that don't run any form of AV. Why in the world
> > would I run it when there is no vector for a virus to get onto a
> > system?
>
> "public facing?"
> >
> >
> > On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> >>
> >> This attitude is fine for a personal system but I don't know anyone
> >> running a public facing commercial server with any form of *nix who
> >> is
> >> not running ClamAV.
> >> --
> >> Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!

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perhaps you guys aren't discussing the same things.

I would clearly have clamav on any server that handles incoming e-mail.

I wouldn't bother installing any version of clamav/clamd on a system
that wasn't handling e-mail, even it were 'public facing' - i.e., LAMP
server.

Craig

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