I'm just about ready to load Linux on my server at home full time! I've been playing around with several distros and have decided to take the plunge. The only part I'm concerned about is viruses.

I know everyone says that Linux is much safer than Windows and I agree. However, you still never know!

As I have a rather large collection of music and pictures, etc. I do regular backups to a removable drive.

My question is this; besides the available anti-virus software for Linux, are there any online services available for Linux like TrendMicro's Housecall site?

I've found in the past that one virus program isn't enough. I've used many different ones in Windows and also ran online checks as well. And usally one or the other finds a virus that was missed!!

Thanks for any suggestions!!!

Taz

I did a search and i conldent find anything. if you make backups like you sayed i wouldent be wored.

Yes, I do make backups. But I like to run virus checks before backing so that I can insure I'm not transferring a virus to my backup data..

I'm a firm believer in you can never be to cautious....some people call me anal-retentive!!

most virus you'll get are made for windows, so you'll be safe.... most virus checkers for linux anyway don't even check for linux viruses..... anyways just having a good permission setting and some firewall will stop pretty much every virus for linux (as no one seems to be making to many linux viruses because its hard to spread them do to strong permissions settings, or just because the system isn't the same from one distro to another (and even sometimes from one computer to another)

If it's only you on the lan, you could set up Samba of NFS to share your root partition read-only over the lan and you could do an external scan from that, even without a House-Call like site.

Scan with what? Something like Norton AV?