From: Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:05:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFnZeoRmVaU53jUvdJwgzMhbXyJ1FgUkxPby3asAuMnXb-7rWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 13:27, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Nod32 is nice, but you need to patch dazuko into your kernel for it to
work in real-time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-22 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-22 11:27 [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Mick
2011-10-22 11:29 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-22 11:43 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 14:22 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-22 15:40 ` Mick
2011-10-22 17:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 20:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-30 12:35 ` Mick
2011-10-22 11:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 14:07 ` Adam Carter
2011-10-22 14:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-22 15:14 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 19:55 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-22 20:47 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 21:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-23 4:04 ` Adam Carter
2011-10-23 7:49 ` Mick
2011-10-23 9:06 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-10-22 18:46 ` Mick
2011-10-22 19:15 ` Dale
2011-10-23 11:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-29 15:39 ` Mick
2011-10-29 17:26 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-29 18:11 ` Mick
2011-10-29 18:25 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-29 18:40 ` Mick
2011-10-30 12:50 ` Mick
2011-10-30 13:32 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 15:29 ` Mick
2011-10-31 9:54 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 20:01 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-23 22:47 ` Dale
2011-10-22 19:05 ` Andrey Moshbear [this message]
2011-10-22 19:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-23 7:20 ` du yang
2011-10-23 8:38 ` Pandu Poluan
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