[luau] virus scaner recommendation

[W. Wayne Liauh]

In order for an AV program to work effectively, you really have to 
update the definition database very frequently (current norm is every 4 
hours).  I don't think "you" (in a generic sense) can expect an average 
Windows user to stick to this necessary discipline.

I don't know if anyone still remembers this.  About 3~4 years when the 
so-called Hawaii High-Tech Assoc. was formed, Governor Ben's high-tech 
Czar Mr. Joe Blanco sent every founding member an e-mail with a deadly 
virus which, rumor has it, devastated at least half of the PCs ownd by 
members of Hawaii's high-tech community.  (The virus was deadly b/c it 
was too new to be included in the definition database of any of the AV 
programs.)  It didn't affect me at all because I was running Linux 
(Corel Linux at that time).

Some of my friends in the mainland were talking about a Linux AV program 
called Exim:

http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=526

I don't know anything about it, but will really appreciate it if you 
could kindly try it and let us know what's going on.  :-)

TIA.


wayne




Rodney Kanno wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a good virus scanner program? I guess I'd like one
>that scans incoming e-mail (i'm using evolution) & all files?
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>TIA,
>Rodney
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