e-mail on linux box

[George Toft]

Craig White wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:42, cliff rogers wrote:
> > Craig, I have had the ZoneAlarm since I got my cable setup so that I would
> > have some protection and I have been concerned about removing it since I
> > have been having this problem. I understand that I need to run anti-virus
> > software but I'm not sure yet which one I should use- There is a question
> > for the list if anyone wants to send me some advice on this I would
> > appreciate it. And as far as I can tell, according to Symantec my box is now
> > clean. Thanks for the info on the maillog file. I will go and check this out
> > and see what I can find. Thanks for all the responses to everyone who did.
> > Cliff
> >
> ----
> If you have a windows computer connected directly to the cable modem,
> you need ZoneAlarm or something similar - If you have the linux box
> 'masquerading' / nat'ing the lan, you don't unless you don't trust your
> family or co-workers.
> 
> As for anti-virus, one was mentioned already but why put windows
> anti-virus up to a vote on a linux message list - Why not just figure
> any current anti-virus software will be better than what you have now -
> none
> 
> Craig
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My philosophy is to protect the boxes on my LAN as if the firewall did
not exist for if it were to be compromised, it surely would not exist
anymore.  Yes, I have two firewalls.  Keeping ZoneAlarm is not bad
thing, but I would be very suspicious if it ever went off behind the
properly configured Linux firewall.

George

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