Clamav virus scanner (was: Email on the Iseries or not) -- PCTECH

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Subject: Clamav virus scanner (was: Email on the Iseries or not)
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:05:39 -0600
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*** RESPONDING TO A MESSAGE FROM MIDRANGE-L here because it's really not
relevant for iSeries.

QSCANFSCTL wrote:
> Just curious re: virus protection -- ClamAV detects 40,000 viruses, McAfee
> detects 150,000. Any thoughts on how you would handle the other 110,000?

Although I can't find the reference, I'm pretty sure that Clamav doesn't
handle all those other viruses because they are no longer prevalent.

Why protect against a DOS 3.1 virus when it can't hurt you any more?

I'm not 100% on that though.

david

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