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 1RHgc5-0001TI-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:48:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A410F21C07C; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3262421C01F for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh5 with SMTP id 5so5937557wyh.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:47:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lTE//pWhVYZ1GQ2tkLRrlU16F1S4gan/kVyxa98hTyM=; b=H4Fo2v2e6G4cR3Xt0sOVacHHEVsxHZdnMIrj1z9dnUD1tMj7pZPyNQGMTLpDppsu5Z ILy2oHBepzLVdO4B0y2k8yKxNlwUwqgvTAhOL3Z5A2ny7qHz+Mu1kc3DstKgYtHemyJq 9jPXLqmzwrr37Q0LQQdkyrJGN8b8lHoPRFzJA= Received: by 10.227.59.12 with SMTP id j12mr7180641wbh.86.1319309225390; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fw16sm21281489wbb.13.2011.10.22.11.47.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:47:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:46:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA2FCE6.1090805@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-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2704313.rcnhxYKIHl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110221947.10374.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b0cf656e34676b73cf045bb95173bb50 --nextPart2704313.rcnhxYKIHl Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > >=20 > > 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 > >=20 > > them: > > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ > >=20 > > Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop > > setup? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Dale Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2704313.rcnhxYKIHl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6jD64ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaiAQCffSTap9LShqcFCMCACJfBaNVl phcAnAgxGo4lgVTu9nEn/edJCTvurD0b =PvB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2704313.rcnhxYKIHl--