RE: AntiVirus!

[Lipscomb, Al]

> Like Felix I'm skeptical about the value of general 
> anti-virii programs 
> running as gatekeepers on Linux servers.
> 

Check out http://www.vmyths.com

A lot of the most "deadly" attacks could have been stopped dead with simple
processes that looked for methods and not specific "signatures".

A simple example would be to look for extensions that indicate executable
status in the Windows world and hold them for examination. You would have
stopped "I Love You" and whatever the latest nonsense that started last
night is, without having to wait for an updated "signature" file.