[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-08-11 kl. 14:31, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2023-08-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 8/10/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2023-08-10, Niels S. Eliasen <nse at eliasen.co> wrote:
>>>> Believe it or not...
>>>> but was asked by a customer yesterday: "What anti-virus software exist on OpenVMS ?"
>>>> Anyone that has knowledge of such a product for OpenVMS ?
>>>
>>> I don't see that as strange at all and it is a _very_ valid question
>>> for a customer to ask.
>>
>> If the calendar said 2003: yes.
>>
> 
> No Arne, when it says 2023.
> 
>> Today the virus threat is a very small piece of the threats.
>>
> 
> A couple of random search results for "anti-virus for linux":
> 
> https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-antivirus/linux/
> 

When it comes to the usage that is relevant for the topic
at hand, Linux is more like Windows. That is, has a lot of
single user systems having the usual tools like mail and
web browsers that are target channels for virus threats.

So I understand that this is a concern around Linux users.

But VMS does not have these envoronments with single user
systems running tools for mail or web browsing.

Information targeting Linux is not always relevant for VMS.