Re: Antivirus recommendation for Win 95

Hi Tom and Mike,

  Thanks for your views!

  Tom, does this mean that there is a possibility that the the
anti-virus component of the minimum standards and/or its
implementation guidelines might be refined this fall?

  How can we (from a Micronet perspective, not an IST one, that is)
track these developments, and/or contribute to this refinement
process, if it occurs?

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

--
Mike:
> So does this mean that once this software hits the website, unix system
> administrators are obliged to install it on their unix DNS servers to
> keep them in compliance with the minimum standards?
> 
> Hopefully the answer is "no, the standard isn't applicable to that
> situation."  But that isn't codified anywhere.  There are things I could
> support as a minimum standard for unix systems, but "anti-virus software"
> definitely isn't one of them.
Tom:
>I agree with Mike on this point; we shouldn't be generally requiring
>anti-virus software on Unix hosts.  Something like Sophos should be
>installed on Unix mail servers, but on machines which aren't serving
>mail it would not make any sense.  We'll have to deal with that
>somehow.
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