Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
FWIW, I think having McAfee .debs, even in non-free, would be a win. However, another thought occurred to me. Stephen, could you ask them to clarify the licensing of their DAT files? If they are indeed free, as http://www.nai.com/download/updates/whatdat.asp> seems to imply, someone oughta look

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 08:01:05AM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > > installer package in

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > > thing I'd have to

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > > thing I'd have to

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > thing I'd have to work on would be upstream upgrades (it currently doesn't > handle t

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: >> Since when did linux get virus's You'd only get them on a really >> bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root). > >On a linux system exporting disk space to Windows machines, it is indeed >practical to have

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:18:25AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the > > > sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial > > >

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the > > sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial > > use is permitted. Either one of these would cause Debian to place you

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:00:00AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protec

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > > program AntiVir for

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: > Since when did linux get virus's A "linux antivirus" is a linux program which detects virus in your DOS partition. (At least this is what I understood from the post). -- "59c014d91ae9e30e1552dd2a66f4f4a5" (a truly random sig)

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread warp
Before I say anything let me state that I am, currently, not even a registered Debian developer, just a user, however.. I'd suggest that you take a look at the debian web page (www.debian.org), specificly the Social Contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract), including the DFSG (Debian Free

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Birgitt Simon wrote: > We offer you a free version from AntiVir for Linux, so that you will > deliver our program with your next distribution CD-ROM. When we (Debian) speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. To be included in our CD-ROM, every program m