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 1RKDP4-00010U-Fa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:13:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9C8521C0BA; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286F521C028 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg7 with SMTP id 7so227600wwg.10 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:12:02 -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=r90aXaiSwrrqd1NuXGD3sZBQMYLgCkbmDnJ9ZrZnO8M=; b=PmCH762dCwU2uCicCDEvQHtb0/bW1/u5++GHDcH3RUFLI688AKbfCsJLBYvMZqwyEX XD4vPdPma42t6yAaTXwf67ZEFe63T11bf09is9ByctIsRe2KPSl//ZwJGZQS0Og91DmS 60HtcYWl0W4e3NnxYkGlXS+M2Jlw3yn+RXSGM= Received: by 10.216.24.13 with SMTP id w13mr1014783wew.84.1319911922351; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:12:02 -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 fy13sm22456710wbb.18.2011.10.29.11.12.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:12:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:11:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201110291639.04734.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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="nextPart4450834.IQ7kR5kueC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110291912.09456.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5313d0299e96f9a8621ff2abbef69ee5 --nextPart4450834.IQ7kR5kueC Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 18:26:45 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick wrote: > >=20 > > The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: > >=20 > > http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements > >=20 > > To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... > > :( > >=20 > > Have I got this wrong? > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick >=20 > Mick, > At the upper left of the page you linked to there was a link to ask > for a free license for personal use: >=20 > http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ Nice! Thanks, I missed that! > Do any folks here regularly run virus scanning on Gentoo boxes? > Reading through the reasons you might want to I still see lack of root > access and quick fixes for security problems at Linux advantages. Only > the fact that Linux is more widely used every day is a reason to be > concerned about anyone trying to attack. (I think.) >=20 > Do good backups of /home. I have never run an antivirus apps on any of my boxen. Only rkhunter and=20 chkrootkit. However, my other half deals with clients who sent and receive messages fro= m=20 their MSWindows machines that are occasionally infected with malicious=20 MSWindows executables. She wants to be able to check attachments in such a= =20 case, advise them and not forward further. Meanwhile, I've installed avast! and I'm now running a mammoth scan on an n= tfs=20 partition. It picked up two trojans. I suspect that they are false=20 positives, but will investigate further. One of the files it picked up is = the=20 pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. Hmm .... it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back u= p I=20 made of a legit DVD) are "... a decompression bomb!" Puleeeeeze! o_O =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4450834.IQ7kR5kueC 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) iEYEABECAAYFAk6sQfkACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbyRwCgjwmvP1ayQw97DKQ73HNTVsdy fqwAn1C8pgUfNpDDTKEs6wBVAzvOJzg5 =fOVH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4450834.IQ7kR5kueC--