As you all know the presence of the clamav module always loaded provides NO real-time protection for ANY file types. To utilise it was have been using clamscan with options to detect Virus potabilities. Clamscan needs to be executed from xterm and its a good idea to run freshclam before performing a scan. There is a new GUI interface called KlamAV. The GUI interface permits real-time virus reports without having to run a scan. It also permits scheduled scans and options interrogated compressed files. There is an issue still in the distributed version of KlamAV if you want to use this you will need to load a module 'modprobe dazuko.o' which I cannot locate from the distro rendering the real-time agent useless. To its credit the interface is well written, however there is no help documents available in the distro - many options are obtuse and misleading. Email clients such as Evolution and kmail are protected in a real time basis. There is no plug in for thunderbird or anything else. There are ambiguities between clamAV and KlamAV, the latter I think is the real time agent and you will need further modules to scan samba traffic on a real time basis. The GUI interface is so slow you start in the morning and have a very long lunch and it might be finished. You will also find a list of suspected files as they are oversized .zip files which it determines as a virus. There is no way to clean an infected file - you either delete it or quarantine it - you cannot repair it.. My advise, if you can get the real time module working - use it, however if you want to scan you HDD I strongly suggest a clamscan from xterm. The application is still in beta. If anyone knows of a real-time agent and a qquick scan for those very odd Linux Virus, that is NOT beta and works well - please let me know in private. Once again - due to the nature of our work, a specific Taylor Made Linux virus has been sent to me (10 files infected so far) and I am in the process of submitting them I could write a page of strange and bizarre hhappenings, but that would take the cake. Submitted for all to consider Scott