*TELUS Detected Spam*Re: Virus Scanner

[Brian McKee]

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On 27/06/07, David McSpadden  wrote:
> To say you don't need a virus scanner is a bit naïve.
> Watch all of the high level security companies and see that all OS's are
> patching these days not just Microsoft.  With more people trying out *nix
> shells in the wild there are more areas open for exposure.  I have all
> flavors of OS's here at my shop now and all are port scanned and probed
> daily by little pests on the Internet.

Poked and prodded - for sure - you need to do updates, and if you run
any services a firewall is prudent.   A rootkit scanner isn't even a
bad idea.  A virus scanner is useless to protect Ubuntu though - there
are no Linux viruses in the wild worth mentioning.

Brian
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