Rick Meyerhoff wrote: <snipped> > Thanks for the info on (the soon to be assimilated into the Windoze > collective) RAV and clamav. yw >> If they insist on having AV on all their boxes then don't the Win32 >> Clients already have an AV package protecting them? > > The windoze clients also have AV but that does not help the Linux server. > I guess I'm assuming that Linux AV only looks for Linux viruses and > Win32 AV only looks for Win32 viruses, but maybe I'm wrong. just FYI, correct me if I'm wrong: The way I understand it there are very few Linux viruses (less than 100?, less than 1k? anyone know?) vs Windows Viruses (65135 acording to my Norton 2k3), and the main reason for antivirus on Linux was to stop windows viruses from spreading (by scanning emails on the server, or shared files via samba/ftp/http/etc...). Try doing a search of your virus definitions on the product you eventually choose, and see how many Linux vs Win32 viri it's checking for, that should give you an idea of the threat level to the Linux box. Chris Frederick. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list