[PLUG] anti virus

Deepak Dinesh deepak@purdue.edu
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:10:30 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, David C. Hansen wrote:

>Leon wrote:
>>
>> Is there anti virus software for mandrake linux?  does it come
>> preinstalled with it?  I don't want to get hte nimda virus

>Anybody else have anything to add?  Tripwire is the second best reason
>that I can come up with when people ask why UNIX doesn't have anti-virus
>programs.
>

Mandrake has had tripfire functionality since 6.0 at least (check your
/var/log/messages). No need to install additional packages.
Mandrake also comes with portsentry preconfigured and that will block most
hostile machines (if your daemons use inetd).

DD