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Best Virus Protection for LINUX
Name: Gerbrandt Bouwer Date: November 10, 2002 at 10:57:27 Pacific OS: LINUX CPU/Ram: Intel Pentium 4 1.6ghz wi
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Can anybody please mail me back if they have a answer for me! I need to protect my linux pc's from viruses I want to know what is the best anti-virus program I can install for linux! or If their is a virus scanning program like Symantec Corporate Edition ,but for linux I would like to know. PLEASE
Name: armin Date: November 10, 2002 at 11:29:59 Pacific
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post here read here :)
clamav is a very nice scanner that can be run as a daemon. i have also read about "scannerdaemon" but i dont know if it is good.
you should know that most linux anti virus software is designed to scan files for windoze virii since there are few linux virii in the wild. if you want to make sure your box hasnt been compromised you might want to use chkrootkit.
hth
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Response Number 2
Name: Chris Hodapp Date: November 10, 2002 at 19:34:41 Pacific
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There aren't really any viruses on Linux that are worth speaking of. There are even fewer virus scanners for Linux. The system structure of Linux pretty much prevents viruses unless you go around running random binaries when logged in as root.
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Response Number 3
Name: hmmm Date: November 11, 2002 at 00:49:20 Pacific
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Do a google search for f-prot. They have a linux virus scanner free for personnal use.
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