virus scan programs

[Adam McLaurin]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:32, Lee_Shackelford at dot.ca.gov wrote:
> Dear freeBSD enthusiast,
>      Greetings.  I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world.  My place of
> employment is a large agency with thousands of client machines.  Most of
> the clients use Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system.  Most
> of the servers use either Novell operating system, or I.B.M. Domino
> operating system.  A very important ritual that each client computer
> performs every morning at boot-up time is to run a virus scan application
> program.  This program is run whether or not the user desires it, because
> it runs before the user us granted a log-on screen.  In my reading of Unix
> and BSD literature, I have found no mention of virus scan programs for
> these operating systems.  Do such programs not exist? Alternately, is the
> Unix/BSD approach to this problem in a different philosophical and/or
> procedural sphere?  If so, could you describe the Unix/BSD approach to
> locating and eradicating these invaders of one's hard drive?  If the issue
> is already explained in either printed literature, or posted at a world
> wide web site, it is sufficient to cite the location.  Many thanks for your
> response.

This topic has been discussed at great length before. Check the mailing
list archives.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/

-- 
Adam McLaurin <blueeskimo at gmx.net>
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