On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:17:11AM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote:
> Nigel Horne wanted us to know:
> >On Monday 15 Nov 2004 13:49, Nigel Horne wrote:
> >> FC3 ships with 1.2.1, and RH have yet to issue an update...
> >Mind you, they don't include clam in their distro either, which is
> >surprising.
> I thought that Fedora was aimed for the desktop more than the server,
> and why would you want a virus scanner for a linux desktop? I thought
> iw as omitted by design. But maybe I'm just rationalizing an oversight
> on their part, not sure.
Fedora was aimed at non-Enterprise. There are quite a few servers out
there that are not Enterprise-level servers. Fedora comes with
sendmail, exim, postfix, spamassassin, apache, and so on. It's not clear
to me either why clamav was missed.
But even if it was a desktop-only distribution, how many desktops come
are running the dozens of Windows-based antivirus programs such as Norton,
McAfee, and so on?
It isn't such a big deal yet for Linux, due to how few virii exist/affect
Linux, but I suspect it will be in the coming years...
Why wouldn't you want to scan your home directory for virii? Or scan your
Windows files over an SMB mount from your Linux box? Or ...
Cheers,
mark
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