Greetings. In my continued quest to migrate to Linux, I'd like to ask the group what anti-virus products you use, or prefer, along with some pro's and con's for each. I already know about Amavis, but haven't used it yet. All of my Linux work thus far has been on an isolated network while I learn (or is that do my damage with) Linux. Thanks, Jeff
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:05, suse@mail.bciassociates.com wrote:
Greetings. In my continued quest to migrate to Linux, I'd like to ask the group what anti-virus products you use, or prefer, along with some pro's and con's for each. I already know about Amavis, but haven't used it yet. All of my Linux work thus far has been on an isolated network while I learn (or is that do my damage with) Linux.
I use antivir from H+BEDV which comes on the SuSE disks. It's free for personal use though you need to obtain a registration key to unlock it from demo mode. I've found it extremely good with near-daily updates online. Once installed, it will check for updates automatically. However, since the risk of viruses on Linux is minimal (for now), I really only have it to scan incoming email destined for MS Windows. An equally or more useful tool is checkrootkit which will inspect your system for really nasty takeover attempts by internet goons. Amavis isn't an AV package, incidentally. It's just a wrapper or interface that mates an AV package to the mail system. And very good it is too. :) Fish
suse@mail.bciassociates.com writes:
Greetings. In my continued quest to migrate to Linux, I'd like to ask the group what anti-virus products you use, or prefer, along with some pro's and con's for each. I already know about Amavis, but haven't used it yet. All of my Linux work thus far has been on an isolated network while I learn (or is that do my damage with) Linux.
I use clamav (http://clamav.sourceforge.net). It has the advantages that it is open source and signatures for new viruses are published very quickly, often before those from the 'commercial' vendors.
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:53, Graham Murray wrote:
I use clamav (http://clamav.sourceforge.net). It has the advantages that it is open source and signatures for new viruses are published very quickly, often before those from the 'commercial' vendors.
I concur the the above recommendation. The other advantage is that they permitt/recommend hourly update checks, whereas most commercial AV's have restrictions on how often you can check/update the AV definition files. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 13:05, suse@mail.bciassociates.com wrote:
what anti-virus products you use, or prefer
F-PROT works fine, for me . . . f-prot is free for home-users the scan-engine may be down-loaded from : www.f-prot.com ~ the Virus Signature files are updated approx weekly -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
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