willie wrote:
I use a MS OS desktop at home (at work I use Solaris and Redhat Linux)and have not put a virus scanner on it in
over 3 years, and have not caught a virus yet.
How do you KNOW you haven't? ;-)
I HAVE received them but I choose not to use security risk software such as:
Internet Explorer or any version of Outlook. I also make great efforts to educate other users
of the risks of using MS products, and regularly convert them to Eudora, Netscape or any other product
that does not allow the propagation of mass mailing viruses.
I enjoy having clamav on my mail server as it is a bother to have to delete hundreds of emails
in my client. A virus is no different than spam as far as receiving to me.
Having a mail server virus check for me is juts convenience, however for those that are not as alert
or not as educated it becomes a requirement.
At 07:52 AM 9/24/2003 -0400, Michael W.Cocke wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:34:36 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 19:34, Michael W.Cocke wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:29:38 -0700, you wrote: >[snip] >> Running without a virus check in this day and age is probably more >> dangerous than unprotected sex - you're more certain to catch >> something on the computer. > >Hello, > >I must disagree with you regarding this, since I will never (ok, >*never* is a long time, but you get the idea) get a virus, especially >a mail-borne virus (or mail-borne worm or trojan, for that matter). > >Why? I use Linux on the desktop. The same can be said for those >using *BSD, Solaris, etc. > >(Yes, I may get worms from buggy services/daemons, but that's >another topic....) > >Sincerely, >Ron
I usually (around 80% of the time) also run linux on the desktop. Unfortunately, I have to make it possible for the other users of my mail server to use my mail server...
In addition, until a whole lot of software vendors get the idea, it's going to be a dual boot world.
On top of that, don't assume that linux can't catch something... It's happened before, it will happen again.
Mike-
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