Server needs anti-virus?

[Ric Moore]

On 04/26/2012 05:31 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 04/26/2012 05:02 PM, Sam Sebastian wrote:
>>>
>>> I run a ubuntu (10.04) server on my LAN and generally its off and does
>>> not usually do anything while its on except for me to mess around with
>>> samba and cups and the like. I was told that it would be a good idea for
>>> me to put some kind of anti virus on it. I was wondering if this is
>>> necessary? There are 3-4 other windows 7 computers on the network. And
>>> all of them have anti-virus installed on them (Norton IIRC)
>>>
>>> And what about a general linux desktop computer, I know that there are
>>> *some* viruses out there for linux but the most common reason that I'm
>>> cited for putting anti-virus on it is to stop it from giving viruses to
>>> the other computers in the network.
>>>
>>> And if so which anti-virus would you recommend?
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend doing nothing. Just let the Windows machines catch fire and
>> burn to the ground. Then the users would be asking what to do??<grins
>> evilly>  ...then you install Linux for them. No more worries. You don't see
>> google installing anti-virus for gmail, do you?
>>
>> If you DID install anti-virus and it failed, would it then be YOUR fault?
>> You imply some sort of warranty and acknowledgement of responsibility by
>> installing the anti-virus (clamav?) and everything thereafter is your fault.
>> If Norton worked, there would be no problem, right? :) Ric
>
> You hear this a lot. It's seriously bad advice.

Well, he could let the windows clients crash and burn, install Linux to 
them, then secretly add your fixes while they aren't looking. It's a 
thought (tongue-in-cheek) :) Ric


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