RE: AntiVirus for Red Hat 9?

From: Matthew Thompson (matthew.thompson_at_lrfairplay.com)
Date: 10/24/03

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    To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:27:30 +0100

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Matt Hemingway [mailto:matt.hemingway@pcnalert.com]
    Sent: 23 October 2003 21:14

    >I use Sophos AV. No GUI (there's no need). No builtin automatic
    >updates either, but I did write a script that runs out of cron
    >every 2 hours to get the latest virus identification files.

    Sophos also email customers when new IDEs are available - the messages are a
    fixed format so it shouldn't be too difficult to subscribe with a certain
    address and on receipt start the download.

    M@T :o)

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