F-Prot for BSD WorkStation

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20 am, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > So far the nightly dat update works well - my real question is simply
> > this - Has anyone used this port? Is it really something that needs to be
> > added since the majority of virii are Windows based.
>
> I use ClamAV instead, but same difference.  The overwhelming majority of
> virus are Windows-based, agreed, which means that virus scanning is really
> useful if you are using your machine as a mail server or as a fileserver to
> Windows clients.
>
> You might find that doing the full system scan takes up a lot of resources
> for some time (possibly hours), but that probably only matters if you
> happen to want to use the machine for something else then.

I also use ClamAV.

If resource utilization is an issue, the scanning strategy could be changed to 
scan only email and /home areas frequently.  Full system scans could be 
scheduled less frequently and during periods of low utilization.

Best regards,

Andrew Gould