From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 09:51:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1108F16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDF6143FDD for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 24264 invoked by uid 65534); 5 Sep 2003 16:51:34 -0000 Received: from dsl-cust-145.openweb.ca (EHLO [64.39.186.145]) (64.39.186.145) by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 05 Sep 2003 18:51:34 +0200 From: Adam McLaurin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tgv2B2F8kk7qs9TTqeoL" Message-Id: <1062780689.64901.5.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:51:30 -0400 cc: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Subject: Re: virus scan programs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:51:37 -0000 --=-tgv2B2F8kk7qs9TTqeoL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:32, Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov wrote: > Dear freeBSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. My place of > employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines. Most of > the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Mo= st > of the servers use either Novell operating system, or I.B.M. Domino > operating system. A very important ritual that each client computer > performs every morning at boot-up time is to run a virus scan application > program. This program is run whether or not the user desires it, because > it runs before the user us granted a log-on screen. In my reading of Uni= x > and BSD literature, I have found no mention of virus scan programs for > these operating systems. Do such programs not exist? Alternately, is the > Unix/BSD approach to this problem in a different philosophical and/or > procedural sphere? If so, could you describe the Unix/BSD approach to > locating and eradicating these invaders of one's hard drive? If the issu= e > is already explained in either printed literature, or posted at a world > wide web site, it is sufficient to cite the location. Many thanks for yo= ur > response. This topic has been discussed at great length before. Check the mailing list archives. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/ --=20 Adam McLaurin --=-tgv2B2F8kk7qs9TTqeoL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/WL8Rt+DSc2Q4lGYRAoARAJ4qyKlxFQznK+tnDM2+/9WaXz9GzACgg4Hc src3dD2pAZ7wkuZwbOsbQvA= =Obk7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tgv2B2F8kk7qs9TTqeoL--