Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
f-prot
How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway? I thought that most of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the ones that try to do things with your address book. It's not that Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less attractive target for the virus creators. Why stretch to the top of the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world? Paul Abrahams
On Friday 01 October 2004 06:41 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
f-prot
How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway? I thought that most of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the ones that try to do things with your address book. It's not that Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less attractive target for the virus creators. Why stretch to the top of the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world?
Paul Abrahams ===========
The virus protection software he asks about and the others mention are for Window's virus, not Linux. When you run a network of machines some Linux, some Windows you still need to catch the Windows viruses. :o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those Who Cannot Hear the Music!
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 01:37, BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 06:41 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
f-prot
How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway? I thought that most of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the ones that try to do things with your address book. It's not that Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less attractive target for the virus creators. Why stretch to the top of the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world?
Paul Abrahams
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The virus protection software he asks about and the others mention are for Window's virus, not Linux. When you run a network of machines some Linux, some Windows you still need to catch the Windows viruses. :o)
Lee
-- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those Who Cannot Hear the Music!
Thank you thats the very message i was about to post .. It's windows that needs the protection not Linux there are no doubt Linux Vuri ariund but they cant do if they cant execute simple as that .. Pete. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:41, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
f-prot
How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway? I thought that most of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the ones that try to do things with your address book. It's not that Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less attractive target for the virus creators. Why stretch to the top of the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world?
Linux virii and other nasties, do exist, but not in the wild, if memory serves. As to low hanging fruit, have you ever considered how many Linux Based Servers there are on the Internet? Lots, though I don't off hand have a percentage (more than 1/3 IIRC, but I don't have the mag (Linux Journal) handy). The big thing is the permissions to do what with what, that _can_ make Linux much more secure than Windows. However there are folks who like to do it all as root, and there are Distro's (like the former Lindows) who default the user to root permissions.
Patrick, El Vie 01 Oct 2004 13:26, Patrick B. O'Brien escribió:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
I use ClamAV to filter our domain's email, and I am very happy with both its performance and its frecuency of virus-fingerprint database updates. I have always been compiling it from the sources for my SuSE 8.2, which is easy enough. If you use the KDE desktop, then you may find a little plugin for Konqueror helpful, which offers a menu entry to virus-scan (with ClamAV) any right-clicked file or directory. Have a look at: http://clamav.sourceforge.net/ http://web.tiscali.it/rospolosco/clamaktion/ Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia
On Friday 01 October 2004 18:26, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/ best rgds _________
On Friday 01 October 2004 11:26, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software? I've been using BitDefender. It needs a cron job or a manual start to run. But it also checks my Windows drive (C,D and E) if you run it to look at all drives.
I keep a copy of the Eicar test virus on my C drive and my Linux drive just to be sure it is actually testing everything. So far so good. -- Russ
On Friday 01 October 2004 16:31, Russ Fineman wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 11:26, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection software?
SuSE9.1 comes with an evaluation license for Antivir. Works great for me. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER@CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE
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