Re: [Evolution] Virus scanning in Evo

["Richard Crawford" <rscrawford mossroot com>]

Enver ALTIN said:

> Linux, and so Evolution is not vulnerable to any viruses. Then there's
> no need to do so. Do you have any other good reason for that?

I'm finding that while there isn't much need for virus scanning in
Evolution, there is a very important role for virus scanning to play in
Linux.

What with SoBig.F flying around these days, I've been getting, on average,
about fifteen virus-infected e-mails per day (I've never been hit this
hard before, and I think it's because someone on my Debian list got
themselves infected and infected a bunch of other people on the same
list).  At home I run a mail server with RH8.0 and I check my mail
remotely using SquirrelMail, or with Outlook when I'm at my XP laptop. 
Right now I'm pretty safe since I know much better than to open any
attachments sent to me from someone I don't know, and I recognize the
subject lines that SoBig uses and I have my anti-virus software up to
date.  However, I would like to have the extra protection of my mail
server killing the virus and stripping it even before I retrieve my
messages.  Therefore, some sort of virus detection software on my Linux
computer would be wonderful.

Sliante,
Richard S. Crawford

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