Anti Virus
I am a recent convert trying to migrate to mandrake, and have a rather basic question for the forum.
Is there any open source equivalent of Norton or McAfee that I can use on my linux box? If this was trivial, perhaps my other question regarding unicode in the linux-distro forum will provide additional challenges :) Thanks a ton.. B PS: I finally read the forum and see that this has been addressed before... promise to read first and ask later next time.. cheers. |
you can use the command line f-prot made for linux.
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but you might also want to consider not running
an antivirus program, since virii for linux are quite uncommon. |
i don't use it to check for virii in linux, i use it to to check
windows for virii from linux. when somebody brings me a windows box that's acting up, i boot linux first and run f-prot, after backing up the partition usually. a lot of virii have counters for payloads and such, and i don't want ot risk that payload being released the first time i boot the machine at my house. i also use it for deleting copies of klez from my attachments folder, so i don't accidently do something dumb when in windows. |
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