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Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:31 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> As for the non-existent virus problem - it is mostly prevented
> by users not being administrators.  And you can go further
> with a readonly /usr and a noexec /home.
> 

I believe he is referring to using Linux systems to provide virus
scanning services for mail, NFS, SMB etc. clients, rather than to virus
scanning for the Linux desktop (which is indeed a non problem).

Lee