Re: Cookies in Linux ? Anti-virus ? Firewall ?

From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:59:44 GMT

On 2004-06-27, Gary Petersen <turnabout-is@fair-play.optinrealbig.com> wrote:

> T'was like the singing of the angels themselves when David said:
>
>> [...]
>> As for antivirus software.... Ummm that's a windows thing.
>> Linux doesn't have viruses like windows does.

> I saw a post earlier from someone who had uvscan (Mcafee virus scan
> for unix?) Grisoft, Kaspersky, and F-Secure also have anti-virus software
> for Linux.

Yes, they're available for linux, but you really only need them if your
linux machine is serving mail or files to Windows clients. 

-- 
-John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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