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Re: [suse-kde] Installing F-PROT Virus Scanner
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:28:30 +0200
  • Message-id: <200207252328.30147.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 25 July 2002 23.15, Bill.Stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot / -report=/home/$1/f-prot.rep

Oh dear.

You're scanning your LINUX file system here, aren't you?

I think you may have missed a little something here. There are no linux
viruses, and the virus scanners "for linux" are meant to scan WINDOWS files
and executables. It's simply a huge waste of time to scan your linux files.

I suggest you change the above to just scan the subdirectories you use to
store MS docs and exe:s. That should reduce the running time of the scan.

For keeping your linux system secure, look at tripwire and similar products,
and chkrootkit (www.chkrootkit.org).

regards
Anders

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