Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems on Ubuntu

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, wirechief <silvermachineman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please tell that to the makers of rkhunter and all the various linux
> programs designed
> to find these things that do not bother linux, tell the people who
> make clamav they
> are wasting their time making anti-virus for linux, maybe they could
> spend it making
> money on windows systems, do you think you can convince them ?
Ermmm, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Having a good
anti-virus kit on Linux is usual in many ways. Here are two:
- Using Linux as a file server means that you might have plenty of
users storing their data on the server. Scanning these against viruses
regularly on the server is easier and more resource-effective than
making the users do it.
- When a Windows user gets infected, you can boot off a Linux
distribution and disinfect their environment.
- Plenty of people use Wine for various reasons and those executables
can be infected/infectious.

The ClamAV team are definitely not wasting their time and their
efforts should be appreciated.
-- 
Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org