Hi

I am curious , which anti virus do you guys use?

1. I am talking about a Windows antivirus, not a linux antivirus, but one that will run on slackware 12.

2. I need it because my USB drives keep getting some virus or the other. while I couldn't care less when I am on slackware, It looks bad that whenever I go to someone with my usb drive , up pops a warning. it is a pita for him as well as me.


Regards
duryodhan

I use avast4workstation it runs under Suse,Fedora 8, Mandriva 2008 It scans linux and windows at the same time
But there is also a windows version is it the best choice I do not know
It is freeware but you have to register to get you,re license key

all the best

AVG AntiVirus is available for Linux as well. They have a free download option, pre-packaged for a few main distributions.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0?prd=afl

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I use antivir and avast. I've had a very very bad experience with AVG in the past, it was completly useless. AVG gave me lots of issues around 2001, detecting virus after my computer was infected... so I don't recommand AVG at all.

does the linux anti vir detect windows viruses ?

Yes, there are only a handful of linux viruses so it's to detect windows viruses being passed from box to box usually.

Hey. I've had some experience with linux Antivir. It's nice once it's set up, but it's kind of a pain because you have to get this kernel module named dazuko working with it. It took me a couple of days to get it all figured out and configured (I'm no linux guru either). I tested it by trying to download an infected file, and it put it in my contaminated folder. Seems to work well, and very fast.

there is a bit defender out for free for Linux, it is under the enterprise and on the right there is a link for a free license for personal use. That is what i use and it works great.

Anybody ever give ClamAV a try? That's what I use. Talk about being a pain, trying to get a Frontend working for ClamAV was a pain. I finally decided to use ClamTk -- it uses PerlTk and a lot of other modules. Funny thing, I normally just use the command line and the standard ClamAV. As root I do this:

"# clamscan -ir --bell /directory/to/scan"

This start the scan so it goes into all the directories down to the end (aka recursive scan), and only notifies me with a bell and an on screen notice of any viruses. To update the ClamAV virus database as root:

"# freshclam"