[Am-info] Microsoft To Kill Popular Linux Antivirus Product

[Mark Dodel]

In <0HGE00ITMA0V1T@mx1.eastlink.ca>, on 06/12/03 at 09:43 PM,
   iallen@accesswave.ca said:

>>Also sInce almost every current virus is win32 related anyway, does
>>anyone really need this on Linux?  I'm sure Norton/Norman/Kaspersky and

>Hi Mark,   Aren't you forgetting that Linux works well as a server that
>can have Windows machines as clients?   You don't really want your drives
>to be used as a place for Windows users to swap their viruses even if it
>does not affect the server system.   Microsoft don't like the idea that
>Linux works so well as a server for Windows...

Yes you are right.  I forgot that Linux is used to serve windows machines.  
I don't run any windows here (except on rare occasion under VPC) so that
scenario never dawned on me.

Ideally all those weenie machines should be converted to eComStation or
Linux machines and then those Linux servers wouldn't need to waste cycles
on AV. :-) 


Mark

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