Does LQ use antivirus software?

jsbjsb001 · 02-14-2017, 03:50 AM

Here's one for ya jeremy, does LQ use any antivirus software (excluding firewalls/other non-antivirus software, of course)?

As I'm not sure if LQ would have a need for any, but for all I know, maybe you do.

I've been meaning to ask for a while now, with recent talk on LQ about it.

hazel · 02-14-2017, 06:01 AM

Well, there's ClamAV. People use it when they're on a network that includes Windows machines or regularly exchange files with Windows users. Linux can act as a Typhoid Mary for viruses; it can spread them without being directly affected by them.

jsbjsb001 · 02-14-2017, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

Well, there's ClamAV. People use it when they're on a network that includes Windows machines or regularly exchange files with Windows users. Linux can act as a Typhoid Mary for viruses; it can spread them without being directly affected by them.

Personally I use Sophos AV and yes I agree with you (and Linux can act as the opposite, stopping viruses before they reach Windows shares). but never the less, I was asking if LQ uses antivirus software. NOT if people should and/or how it affects Linux (or Windows for that matter).

jeremy · 02-17-2017, 11:17 AM

I'm not exactly clear what context you're asking in here, but "LQ the website" does not use any antivirus software.

--jeremy

jsbjsb001 · 02-17-2017, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

I'm not exactly clear what context you're asking in here, but "LQ the website" does not use any antivirus software.

--jeremy

I meant on any of LQ's server's, in general if that makes sense?