Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Volker Armin Hemmann:
> On Freitag, 9. Mai 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel:
> > > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program.  I was wondering
> > > if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates
> > > well with Thunderbird.  That has been my one disappointment with
> > > clamav.  Not necessarily clamav's fault since T/B maintains its
> > > emails in one long file.
> >
> > Hmm, how many Linux viruses exist out there? Usually these Linux based
> > anti virus progs only make sense on mail servers that receive mail for
> > Windows users.
> >
> > Or am I completely wrong here?
>
> better save than sorry - and there is more malware than virus' and worms.
> A good av might be able to find some of the less sophisticated rootkits
> too.

On Linux, to be affected by malware received via mail, the user has to 
explicitely:

1) Save the attachment
2) make it executable
3) finally run it

If you do all this with an attachment (eventually) received from an unknown 
source, you deserve having your data deleted ;-)

Bye...

	Dirk
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