Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

[Masood Ahmed <coolmasood@gmail.com>]

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Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> hello,
> i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for
> linux 

clamav is good, and is also in portage.. just do emerge clamav and
you'll have a good antivirus software running on your gentoo box.

> i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux
> systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is
> clean i've been missing some documents from these partitions on
> windows but they are availiable on linux

I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses.

> could anyone plz point me to the right manual to read?

check out http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/

also use google to find best resources..

Bye,
Masood Ahmed

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