[LBo] More musings on Open Source firewalls and antivirus solutions

[Tim]

While I agree that a windows virus will not harm a Linux based PC and that 
there are a very limited amount of linux virus, it still worth having an anti 
virus on your desktop PC.

Since the 28th July KlamAV has picked up 25 Virus infected e-mails coming into 
my inbox, now what would happen if you were to forward one of those e-mails 
on to somebody who was on a windows box??

I run Mepis, KlamAV and Spamassassin (273 spams since 27th July) are part of 
the distro and both work inconjuction with Kmail with out a problem.

Thats my 2 pence(UK) worth

Tim

On Mon August 6 2007 14:54, Brian Reichert wrote:
> * Sam Morgan <s.morgan at linuxbasics.org> [2007-08-06 08:32:37-0500]
>
> > Not necessacarily something we would all feel the need to install.
> > But it is interesting to see how far Linux and Open Source solutions
> > have come towards meeting the needs on the growing online community.
> >
> > CopFilter http://www.copfilter.org/
> > looks like a very interesting addon for
> > IPCop's http://www.ipcop.org/ firewall offering.
> >
> > Looks like the combination of the 2 would make for a
> > very nice Open Source solution for a home or small office.
> >
> > Their many screen shots give a nice overview of it's features.
> > http://www.copfilter.org/gallery.php
> >
> > Usual disclaimer, no monetary interests, (uh hello it's free folks) <g>
> > just happened across the link while browsing the web.
>
> It's interesting that you mention Copfilter.  I've been using it w/ ipcop
> for probably close to a year at this point and it is very nice.  You could
> probably get away with not using the AV of it with Linux boxes, however,
> it's a nice gateway level solution to help keep the nasties out of any
> Windows boxen on your network.  I especially like that you can combine
> clamav and fprot for your AV solution if you are a home user (businesses
> need to buy fprot) and that it can be done transparently so you don't need
> to do any configuration on the client side.