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 1RHZnr-0005GJ-8h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:31:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B3F821C11A; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s1.itech7.com (s1.itech7.com [94.76.222.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5E521C104 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s1.itech7.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4DF3E60 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:59:47 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <4EA2A92F.3010204@nileshgr.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:59:51 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111007 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 409a0b6e0df7da913162ec47ae48955e On Sat 22 Oct 2011 04:57:33 PM IST, 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? IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com