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 1RHa0o-0007ur-OY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:45:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C41421C111; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078AA21C03F for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2CD20812 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:44:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:44:02 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=3Y2WUkO0PKjIfJ6jjxCoCMVR PMw=; b=YISJKv/nAGmYJk19xgQoq+bfleEn4GJcYXZfh6T5LvyZK7U5Go67nVN1 Pb1OfNOg/Jo0cw/xc5oglyEwDXok7WNnMQi4oYMqAySPBwJxiJBvTr140p8iNGj1 iA/rbQlVqh6aqzJi9pdxHI+XFUxlppv4m9S93js6TEX1/dFWbwo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=3Y2W UkO0PKjIfJ6jjxCoCMVRPMw=; b=OiAbqTESy2hZYcaNAMLPU8X5EA+SFwy3bHJ8 b4tevut970CdXdMnoCmmXnmWq8cOF4Jck9YBRL/Koq5xVJJLbge7pufF6dLbxa9g dOC6hQzP+2USc8AwPaGZfAC1K+HTaxFaabkpHpTiLEbgDX82kXlc/gy+YOyMXr9U AuDph4E= X-Sasl-enc: 00G2/n5qw6ITKQD6V8YNVkHzIS6bp8uIvWU0eYKB7M5R 1319283842 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (serv.binarywings.net [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C0CE483422 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4EA2AC79.5050102@binarywings.net> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:53 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110925 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 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> <4EA2A92F.3010204@nileshgr.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA2A92F.3010204@nileshgr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig39042D626C18773D68A3F43C" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6dc08f998d414c2aa1b53fb43cc60c86 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig39042D626C18773D68A3F43C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 22.10.2011 13:29, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: > 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=20 >> used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a numbe= r of=20 >> 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=20 >> 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 se= tup? >=20 > IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to=20 > run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from=20 > viruses. I agree. Check that your ISP performs virus checks. If not or if you want to be extra sure, I think kmail can work with clamav -- at least it could in the old 3.x days when I still used it. > The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute=20 > Windows binaries. >=20 Well, this is an oversimplification. 1) Any box running Wine is possibly as exposed to your classic pretty-women.exe mail attachments as any windows systems. 2) You should also be worried about Open/LibreOffice macro viruses as well as PDF vulnerabilities. Not to forget Flash, Java or Mozilla based exploits. Still, keeping your system up-to-date and observing the freshly revived GLSA notifications is more likely to save your butt than clamav. 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