Free virus scanning software?

bret · 12-21-2006, 04:14 PM

Does anyone know of any gpl free virus scanning utilities for linux? Are there any that come with the major distros e.g. SuSE ES 9 or RHES 4.

acid_kewpie · 12-21-2006, 04:18 PM

well firstly note that windows viruses (ie.. 99% of all viruses) have no effect under linux, but you can still check sophos or clamav out.

pljvaldez · 12-21-2006, 04:23 PM

I believe AVG, BitDefender, and F-Prot are also free as in beer for linux. But I think they're not be GPL (freeware only).

bret · 12-21-2006, 05:33 PM

Hey,

Thanks for your quick responses.

indienick · 12-21-2006, 11:05 PM

I know ClamAV comes with Mandriva (I've gotta say, while I know the reason for the new name, I still prefer calling it "Mandrake"), but I'm not too crazy about it. While I never have to scan for viruses, my friends usually request I do such menial tasks for them, as Linux isn't all that succeptable to viruses.

acid_kewpie · 12-22-2006, 03:35 AM

yeah you have more worries from root kis and such, so rkhunter and chkrootkit are more worthwhile exploting.

Xeratul · 12-22-2006, 09:00 AM

ubuntu has clamav in the repos if i recall well

alred · 12-22-2006, 07:20 PM

you can also try and have a look at nessus and probably snort ... need to do them before you touch anything after a clean and strict installation of a linux system but its very hard to work "consistently"(i cant) with these tools and linux is about learning and doing ...

//come to think about it , linux does behave more and more like "the windows ways" nowadays ... may or may not be a good thing to see ...

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