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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Is M$ safer than UN*X(-LIKE)?? Post 302210333 by Texasone on Monday 30th of June 2008 04:22:37 PM
Old 06-30-2008
Is M$ safer than UN*X(-LIKE)??

I know that you already know the answer to the question. It just springed in my mind after what happened yesterday. I was getting some books off of Amazon.com, since they are cheeper than bookstore, and my mother said something that made me laugh 'till I couldn't breathe. I have a Debian Lenny box while my parents have an XP box. My mom still doesn't understand the difference so she thinks that because I don't have antivirus or antispyware like she does, that my box is less safeSmilieSmilie I tried to explain it again but she still can't grasp M$ virus vs PC virus. So she says that we must do it on an M$ box since it is more secure. So, basically, this is a question for all you UN*X users out there, and maybe you Mac fans: Has a Windows user ever told you that your machine wasn't safe from all those nasty viruses and trojens [that only affect Windows I might addSmilie] since you don't have anti virus or anti anything?

P.S. She also told me that that Norton 360 was safer than Linux.Smilie

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MAILGRAPH(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MAILGRAPH(8)

NAME
mailgraph - daemon which produces graphs of SMTP traffic SYNOPSIS
mailgraph [ options ] DESCRIPTION
mailgraph is a daemon which produces mail statistics RRDtool for Postfix and Sendmail. This stats are stored for generating daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of sent/received/rejected and bounced/viruses/spam mails. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display help and exit. -v, --verbose Be verbose about what you do. -V, --version Output version information and exit. -c, --cat Cause the logfile to be only read and not monitored. -l, --logfile file Monitor logfile file instead of /var/log/syslog. -t, --logtype type Set logfile's type (default: syslog). -y, --year Start year of the log file (default: current year). --host=HOST Use only entries for HOST (regexp) in syslog. -d, --daemon Start in the background --daemon-pid=FILE Write PID to FILE instead of /var/run/mailgraph.pid. --daemon-rrd=DIR Write RRDs to DIR instead of /var/lib/mailgraph/. --daemon-log=FILE Write verbose-log to FILE instead of /var/log/mailgraph.log. --ignore-localhost Ignore mail to/from localhost (used for virus scanner). --ignore-host=HOST Ignore mail to/from HOST (used for virus scanner). --no-mail-rrd Do not update the mail rrd. --no-virus-rrd Do not update the virus rrd. --no-greylist-rrd Do not update the greylist rrd. --rrd-name=NAME Use NAME.rrd, NAME_virus.rrd and NAME_greylist.rrd for the rrd files. --rbl-is-spam Count rbl rejects as spam. --virbl-is-virus Count virbl rejects as viruses. SEE ALSO
rrdtool(1), RRDs(3pm) AUTHOR
David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch> MAILGRAPH(8)
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