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 1RHZuK-0006fZ-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:38:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F26F21C138; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FBD21C0AE for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0791B4010 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:37:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.061 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.061 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.632, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WDqAyI7jouoK for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE651B4006 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHZt0-0003ju-Ug for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:37:10 +0200 Received: from athedsl-374521.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.14.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:37:10 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374521.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:37:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:37:23 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374521.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: aec71422f6818cad48d48f000f4eed9b On 10/22/2011 02:27 PM, 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? You don't need one. Linux anti-virus programs are there to protect Windows installations (Windows executables passing through a Linux box). Since you said "Desktop", I assume you meant protect against Linux viruses. Since there aren't any Linus viruses, there's no need for something like that.