I'am thinking of running FreeBSD on my desktop and quit sponsoring Bill.

My main concern is antivirus, does any know a good antivirus program for FreeBSD and that can scan/check my emails when I fetch them from the server or when I try to open them in my email client.

Or am I to paranoid with this from my days with windows?

Any help or thought is appreciated.

/Krister

Freebsd has ports for clam av and fprot. Either one is an excellent choice.

Do you have knowledge on the ufs or the security of freebsd? Viruses cant do much on nix

Do you have knowledge on the ufs or the security of freebsd? Viruses cant do much on nix

Read this http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/show...ighlight=virus

The UFS file system doesn't really have anything to do with getting or not getting a virus. The point is that the only *n*x e-mail exploits I've ever heard of were for PINE, well OK I guess Thunderbird just recently had a vulnerability too... Any way I don't think there's been a single mass-mailed *n*x worm yet, all the current e-mail viruses target Windows-only and they cannot affect a non-Windows system.

It's still reasonable to run A-V software on any platform, but it's extremely unlikely (currently, any way) that you would receive an e-mail message that could exploit your system.

Thanks everybody.

I will install ClamAv and I will also look into ufs but on that front I have no experience, but I will learn.

/Krister