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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:11:58 +0100
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On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 18:26:45 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>=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
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