Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Art Lemasters wrote: > > > [cut] > > BTW, I recently worked a contract for a corporation that uses > > nothing but NT servers and workstations. The machines were rebooted > > every two or three days, and complete images were installed to them > > once a week or more. Granted, though, the employees there were actually > > allowed to send and receive e-mail to their workstations via the > > Internet with no UNIX server to protect them! > > > Semi-serious question: > > How does a UNIX server protect them against viruses (I assume that's > what you mean)? Do they die in the arid environment of the server? ;-)
I think unix servers are generally virus-neutral. Most of the products that claim to scan emails, for example, at gateways seem to be built for NT and Netware. Perhaps this is one reason why so much anti-virus scanning is left to the end-user, which makes it much more expensive as well as hit-and-miss. (I for one have no idea how to scan a floppy/ email/downloaded file with a virus scanner.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
