From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RHvpV-0000aK-5H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:03:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8FA721C0E4; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEDF21C0E4 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so8501340bke.40 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:01:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=uraVfhhaEKtd1KfwGBehf0QX7hXi08adTxtDVpFZyXI=; b=gK0Ss8yW+zKWqBNmTlzItV7f8DsOgnltK6Jp3SFeYAZdXDtdyieHAc/9ERC2E7WevJ tnykE8TFYUTvwUG2PcE6Xnx6D5lfNOATJ7BsEPXSQp1lgMntFIsXhgvYqp4299H5mVAu 53md9J2g225Ngdr4bGu0dmWxDDiX7ln/Bnbkg= Received: by 10.223.77.77 with SMTP id f13mr28855269fak.19.1319367701913; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC6028D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.2.141]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f23sm35232416faf.0.2011.10.23.04.01.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:01:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:01:32 +0200 Message-ID: <13204333.o4Zo6Cxzgh@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.2 (Linux/3.0.7; KDE/4.7.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201110221947.10374.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com> <201110221947.10374.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7e3fed5911a670b19a09a02dfcbcdbb4 Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 19:46:59 schrieb Mick: > On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I > > > have > > > never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows > > > a > > > number of > > > > > > them: > > > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ > > > > > > Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. > > > > > > The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages > > > from > > > ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via > > > said > > > ISP. > > > > > > What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop > > > setup? > > > > I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really > > need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good > > that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine > > and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be > > infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here > > about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know > > it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find > > it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks > > its stuff to be sure it is clean. > > > > If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you > > do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have > > figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of "junk" > > anymore. > > > > I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my > > brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay > > for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. > > Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG > > would be better still. > > > > Dale > > Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? looks like - but I just run the bitdefender script to extract, than used dpkg --force-all to install. Works well so far. You can get a free personal use licence on their web site. -- #163933