I'm looking for a McAfee like Antivirus software for fedora, better to be on-access, not on-demand. i know McAfee has one but it's on-demand. Is there one?

I don't know of any, and you shouldn't need one, either,
since people without root-access can't modify relevant executables
(and you're not as silly as to run everything as root, are you?).


Cheers,
Tink

are you saying i should not run things as a root? if i create a user will that be enough protection from viruses?
Thanks

I'm definitely saying you shouldn't do anything
as root if it's not necessary to e.g. su - for
administrative tasks.... :)

There are hardly any Linux viruses in the first
place, and the ones should be pretty harmless
unless you have super user privileges ...

However, there are other security measures you
should be taking, I'd suggest a read of the sticky
thread at the top of the security forum...


Cheers,
Tink

You need to read this

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus

Thanks to all of you. I was using Fedora as a root all the time.
Thanks again.

I was using ClamAV from http://www.clamav.net/ with the dazuko module for on access scanning. But, I figured after a while that it was kind of a waste of cpu time. I noticed things were much slower when I had it scaning files in my /home which is what I figured you would want to protect since, if you aren't root, it all that would really be vulnerable.

I am still using clamscan to scan incoming e-mail for viruses, not because I'm afraid of them, but just out of curiosity to see how many viruses I get sent to me a month.

Something tells me that the latest worm for Outlook won't do to much in mutt. :P

Brian