From what I saw on the f-secure site, the only Linux support is their server edition.

On 21 Oct 2002 at 17:55, jaakko tamminen wrote:

Hi

We have found F-Secure to be a good choice.

They have a 30-day demo on their web-site, and it works also with latest updates, that usually appears "the next day", so they do react very quickly.

web-site is www.f-secure.com

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Hello Jaakko, Hello Jerry, On Monday 21 October 2002 19:35, jaakko tamminen wrote: [...]

You seem to be right.. They had the demo about a month ago, but not anymore.. shame.... [previous quote removed]

I just downloaded F-Prot Linux for Small Business. It works fine on my SuSE 8.0. License shall be without charge for personal users of F-Prot Linux for Small Business, when used on personal workstations. info ---> http://www.f-prot.com/products/fplin.html download ---> http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfplinfree.html Regards, Sven.

Hello Erik! On Monday 21 October 2002 20:20, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

Hello Sven. I have downloaded f-prot here also.

I have installed Amavis. Have you also Amavis ??.

Which files do you put in /var/spool/scan ??.

I actually don't know, sorry! :-( I personally do not use amavis-sendmail, but the smtp-server of my ISP (i.e., our university mailserver) to post e-mails. But maybe you can find some information about this in the amavis-sendmail documentation (?): /usr/share/doc/packages/amavis-sendmail/README.scanners Greetings, Sven.

Hi Sven So did I.. I'm currently checking the LAN abroad for viruses, and it actually found from one users computer a bunch of them. Jaska. On Monday 21 October 2002 20:55, Sven Wahl wrote:

Hello Jaakko, Hello Jerry,

On Monday 21 October 2002 19:35, jaakko tamminen wrote:

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You seem to be right.. They had the demo about a month ago, but not anymore.. shame....

[previous quote removed]

I just downloaded F-Prot Linux for Small Business. It works fine on my SuSE 8.0. License shall be without charge for personal users of F-Prot Linux for Small Business, when used on personal workstations.

info ---> http://www.f-prot.com/products/fplin.html

download ---> http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfplinfree.html

Regards,

Sven.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, ro b wrote:

This maybe a dumb question so I apologize in advance:Are there viruses for linux?Seen 'em in Macs and heard of 'em in that Windows thing.

Yes, as a matter of fact, viruses for Linux do exist, but only just a few (about 5-10 if memory serves me). Also, most of them have never been spotted in "the wild", they were mostly lab experiments to prove that Linux could be vulnerable to viruses. Another type of malicious program is worms. Media reports often confuse these with viruses. Some worms exist that attack Linux, and these have been roaming the net. Finally, I'll just mention trojan horses (or just trojans). These exist for any operating system, and the only real protection against them is only running software from someone you trust - or only running software that you have read the source code for and compiled yourself. Regards Ole

On Monday 21 October 2002 18:06, Preston Crawford wrote:

Do any of these, by the way, work with fetchmail? That's what I use to get my email and read with Pine.

AFAIK F-Prot works with Mailscanner (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/) which in turn, works with fetchmail. Mailscanner also supports spamassassin (http://www.spamassassin.org/) which is also very handy if your inbox is anything like mine. Simon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, tabanna wrote:

On Monday 21 October 2002 05:06 pm, Preston Crawford wrote:

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Do any of these, by the way, work with fetchmail?

Hi :)

F_PROT will scan what you want ~ your whole system ~ or, if you prefer, just your Mail directories

Okay, that's the important part. It will be able to tell while scanning mail folders if a virus is present? I wasn't sure. I'm a Windows refugee from about a year and a half ago, so I wasn't sure if f-prot would be able to dig down into standard mailboxes and what it would do when it did. Preston

FX Fraipont wrote:

David wrote:

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Hello FX, I see that you say f-prot works well, I just downloaded and installed but I have a couple of questions. Does it scan mail, How do you get it to run, and for the update-script to work they say you need to have wget,head,unzip and grep, I have all of these except head which I cannot find in the 8.0 package, where do I find it. Thanks David

I just use it to scan dubious attachments and increase my collection og w32@klez and bugbear infested message. I update manually, by downloading the definition file and copying it to the f-prot directory.

fx

FX, How do you get f-prot to start, I have tried as user and root the command f-prot /home and f-prot.sh /home but with the attached results. Also where do I get the app head that is mentioned fy f-prot. Thanks David Password: linux:/home/davbar # f-prot /home bash: f-prot: command not found linux:/home/davbar # f-prot.sh /home bash: f-prot.sh: command not found linux:/home/davbar # f-prot.sh bash: f-prot.sh: command not found linux:/home/davbar # f-prot.sh /home/usr bash: f-prot.sh: command not found linux:/home/davbar #

tabanna wrote:

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:45 pm, David Barrow wrote:

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How do you get f-prot to start

~ maybe , have a look at file permissions, and make sure that f-prot is executable [ u+x ]

if you have put f-prot in /usr/local then check the $PATH . . . try executing ./f-prot in the f-prot directory

Hello Tabanna, Checked file permissions they were drwxr-xr-x for f-prot link to directory and the same for directory. Permissions for .sh were -rwxr-xr-x. David davbar@linux:~> ./f-prot /home bash: ./f-prot: No such file or directory davbar@linux:~> cd f-prot bash: cd: f-prot: No such file or directory davbar@linux:~> cd /usr/local/f-prot davbar@linux:/usr/local/f-prot> ./f-prot davbar@linux:/usr/local/f-prot> f-prot.sh bash: f-prot.sh: command not found davbar@linux:/usr/local/f-prot>

Clive Rogers wrote:

Hi David, Try this as user not root or su, f-prot -list /home/username

This is how I start it up to check my home directory.

Thanks Clive, That command worked. Now to another subject on anti virus. In windows I use avast and kaspersky as anti-virus tools. Avast mostly for the active scan of e-mail and kaspersky for the rest. What I would like to know is there an anti-virus tool for linux that can be used to active scan incoming e-mail when used by a single user without having to set up some kind of seperate mail server. Thanks David