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 1RHfNt-0001R2-0K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:29:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCD4521C0ED; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F5E21C06C for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnp2 with SMTP id p2so6210233ggn.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:27:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PiZGnXFXrGvpbAImRAffFVFaz1tIsFF0eVsQ1upcIFk=; b=TgNy41NWLMzlbP3iJEjmOn9GewgUhwtqPMCi2WVkeaY9mE3CnFbuLqUVcsYQ0DE7hn +dzgoQGEBjzD6xr0DYlSemtUrv2JGmJcZqXgoT7Erj3jIDCXxJsfsK2ulqQEAC16+L7q TPS3UHH15O70V10XRVkzJ5vsvr9b3euHtFHR4= Received: by 10.236.155.74 with SMTP id i50mr27514865yhk.23.1319304425457; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-91-152.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.91.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d32sm22568364yhj.17.2011.10.22.10.27.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:27:02 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: acbc356f9399eab488bc754cad769e51 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? 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. 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. 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. Dale :-) :-)