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 1RHguF-0005Nb-AI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:06:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40FCC21C079; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E51B21C07C for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so7683430bke.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:05:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=S14F8PESLZ4WKDiT7cIg1Xkr5pT+qu/J/w8d9H0O/HM=; b=KHs0zcTO18pLwmWbr4tzwIKYzwksYO5wxQ2f828GZO0NuYxASTPkrzexIdHpMKRsle JRJZtQK5XFrSLXr6M/LwEjCUlZM+bK0cQcdhzRw7cm8IlkRfi02yOM0TzJqb7LezyXNy HvuZXIRjuMdeZoon7/FFvd9a/hcSeJMvO1Evo= Received: by 10.223.15.10 with SMTP id i10mr32506711faa.17.1319310344130; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:05:44 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.102.65 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:05:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com> References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EA2FCE6.1090805@gmail.com> From: Andrey Moshbear Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:05:24 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 66f3d74efce01706d1a006b8d354798d On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 13:27, Dale 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. =C2=A0This page that I googled up shows a nu= mber of >> them: >> >> =C2=A0 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 I= SP >> 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 setu= p? > > I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. =C2=A0You don't real= ly need > a anit-virus software to protect yourself. =C2=A0I do think it is good th= at you > want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then yo= u > know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. =C2=A0I use= d to do > this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to > others. =C2=A0Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. =C2= =A0If I get a > video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a > link to that. =C2=A0I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is cl= ean. > > If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you = do > have to think before hitting forward too. =C2=A0I think people have figur= ed 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. =C2=A0I have that on my b= rothers > XP box. =C2=A0He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. =C2= =A0If you can > get that running on Linux, then that would be great. =C2=A0Another 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.