Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On 30 October 2011 15:29, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 13:32:26 James Broadhead wrote: I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet I have ... Oops, sorry! I was reading the thread on my phone, and must have missed it. JB
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:40:49 Mick wrote: On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the actual malware was once loaded into (Windows XP's) memory got swapped, and avast! picked up its remnant. Loaded into memory doesn't mean that the malware was active, if the Windows XP was equipped with a good antivirus. Interesting! The WinXP has Microsoft Security Essentials on it. I'll ask my wife if it picked up anything lately. She can't recall any MSE reports of malware. I did check the WinXP fs for all the files and registry entries that this trojan is meant to create and none were present. Then I've zero'ed the pagefile and a second scan did not flag anything up. I also checked for a reported trojan in a Windows 7 vdi file (in virtualbox). Nothing found there either. I am tempted to think that avast! is rather super-sensitive. However, avast! also picked up some php files from a backed up website - so this may be a worthwhile find. Anyway, I can't make it integrate with kmail which was the original user requirement. Tried this script but the kmail Antivirus Wizard will not pick it up: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17898.0 So I am now heading for clamav to see how that works with a Linux desktop. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege escalation. On Oct 30, 2011 1:06 p.m., Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:40:49 Mick wrote: On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the actual malware was once loaded into (Windows XP's) memory got swapped, and avast! picked up its remnant. Loaded into memory doesn't mean that the malware was active, if the Windows XP was equipped with a good antivirus. Interesting! The WinXP has Microsoft Security Essentials on it. I'll ask my wife if it picked up anything lately. She can't recall any MSE reports of malware. I did check the WinXP fs for all the files and registry entries that this trojan is meant to create and none were present. Then I've zero'ed the pagefile and a second scan did not flag anything up. I also checked for a reported trojan in a Windows 7 vdi file (in virtualbox). Nothing found there either. I am tempted to think that avast! is rather super-sensitive. However, avast! also picked up some php files from a backed up website - so this may be a worthwhile find. Anyway, I can't make it integrate with kmail which was the original user requirement. Tried this script but the kmail Antivirus Wizard will not pick it up: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17898.0 So I am now heading for clamav to see how that works with a Linux desktop. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 13:32:26 James Broadhead wrote: I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege escalation. I have ... All I use on my boxen is chkrootkit and rkhunter. rkhunter-1.3.8 is currently giving me false positives: == File properties checks... Required commands check failed Files checked: 138 Suspect files: 1 Rootkit checks... Rootkits checked : 245 Possible rootkits: 2 Rootkit names: Xzibit Rootkit, Knark Rootkit Applications checks... Applications checked: 3 Suspect applications: 0 == This is known and I believe fixed in later versions. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege escalation. On Oct 30, 2011 1:06 p.m., Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 12:01:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 19:46:59 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Dale Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? looks like - but I just run the bitdefender script to extract, than used dpkg --force-all to install. Works well so far. You can get a free personal use licence on their web site. I am getting confused ... Just looked at the ebuild for app-antivirus/bitdefender-scanner-7.6.4-r1 and it seems that the user has to fill in a form for an evaluation license only: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/browseEvaluationVersion/2/80/ The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... :( Have I got this wrong? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... :( Have I got this wrong? -- Regards, Mick Mick, At the upper left of the page you linked to there was a link to ask for a free license for personal use: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ Do any folks here regularly run virus scanning on Gentoo boxes? Reading through the reasons you might want to I still see lack of root access and quick fixes for security problems at Linux advantages. Only the fact that Linux is more widely used every day is a reason to be concerned about anyone trying to attack. (I think.) Do good backups of /home. HTH, Mark
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On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 18:26:45 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... :( Have I got this wrong? -- Regards, Mick Mick, At the upper left of the page you linked to there was a link to ask for a free license for personal use: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ Nice! Thanks, I missed that! Do any folks here regularly run virus scanning on Gentoo boxes? Reading through the reasons you might want to I still see lack of root access and quick fixes for security problems at Linux advantages. Only the fact that Linux is more widely used every day is a reason to be concerned about anyone trying to attack. (I think.) Do good backups of /home. I have never run an antivirus apps on any of my boxen. Only rkhunter and chkrootkit. However, my other half deals with clients who sent and receive messages from their MSWindows machines that are occasionally infected with malicious MSWindows executables. She wants to be able to check attachments in such a case, advise them and not forward further. Meanwhile, I've installed avast! and I'm now running a mammoth scan on an ntfs partition. It picked up two trojans. I suspect that they are false positives, but will investigate further. One of the files it picked up is the pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. Hmm it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back up I made of a legit DVD) are ... a decompression bomb! Puleze! o_O -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 18:26:45 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... :( Have I got this wrong? -- Regards, Mick Mick, At the upper left of the page you linked to there was a link to ask for a free license for personal use: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ Nice! Thanks, I missed that! Do any folks here regularly run virus scanning on Gentoo boxes? Reading through the reasons you might want to I still see lack of root access and quick fixes for security problems at Linux advantages. Only the fact that Linux is more widely used every day is a reason to be concerned about anyone trying to attack. (I think.) Do good backups of /home. I have never run an antivirus apps on any of my boxen. Only rkhunter and chkrootkit. However, my other half deals with clients who sent and receive messages from their MSWindows machines that are occasionally infected with malicious MSWindows executables. She wants to be able to check attachments in such a case, advise them and not forward further. Meanwhile, I've installed avast! and I'm now running a mammoth scan on an ntfs partition. It picked up two trojans. I suspect that they are false positives, but will investigate further. One of the files it picked up is the pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the actual malware was once loaded into (Windows XP's) memory got swapped, and avast! picked up its remnant. Loaded into memory doesn't mean that the malware was active, if the Windows XP was equipped with a good antivirus. Hmm it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back up I made of a legit DVD) are ... a decompression bomb! Puleze! o_O AFAIK decompression bomb is just avast!'s colorful way of saying that this file is compressed, and I can't uncompress it to scan its contents, because there's not enough RAM to do a decompression. Rgds,
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On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the actual malware was once loaded into (Windows XP's) memory got swapped, and avast! picked up its remnant. Loaded into memory doesn't mean that the malware was active, if the Windows XP was equipped with a good antivirus. Interesting! The WinXP has Microsoft Security Essentials on it. I'll ask my wife if it picked up anything lately. Hmm it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back up I made of a legit DVD) are ... a decompression bomb! Puleze! o_O AFAIK decompression bomb is just avast!'s colorful way of saying that this file is compressed, and I can't uncompress it to scan its contents, because there's not enough RAM to do a decompression. Oh! I see ... (I was in close proximity when bombs were going off in London and I get a bit jumpy unnecessarily it seems! :)) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the link for the Linux version: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 overlay gentoo-zh offer it. app-antivirus/avast4workstation -- Best Regads du yang oooO: (..): :\.(:::Oooo:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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On Oct 23, 2011 2:23 PM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the link for the Linux version: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 overlay gentoo-zh offer it. app-antivirus/avast4workstation Whoa, COOL! Thanks for the info! Rgds,
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Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 19:46:59 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Dale Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? looks like - but I just run the bitdefender script to extract, than used dpkg --force-all to install. Works well so far. You can get a free personal use licence on their web site. -- #163933
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Mick wrote:
Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender?
I found these:
root@fireball / # eix avast
* app-antivirus/avast4workstation
Available versions: ~1.3.0-r2!m[1] ~1.3.0-r2!m[2]
Homepage:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html
Description: avast! Linux Home Edition
[1] gentoo-china layman/gentoo-china
[2] gentoo-zh layman/gentoo-zh
root@fireball / # eix avg
* media-libs/shivavg
Available versions: [M]~0.2.1
Homepage:http://shivavg.sourceforge.net
Description: open-source implementation of the Khronos'
OpenVG specification
* www-apache/mod_loadavg
Available versions: ~0.0.1
Homepage:http://defunced.de/
Description: Apache module executing CGI-Requests
depending on the load of the server
Found 2 matches.
root@fireball / # eix bitdefend
* app-antivirus/bitdefender-scanner
Available versions: ~7.6.4-r1!f[1] ~7.6.4-r1!f[2]
{bash-completion examples gtk}
Homepage:
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html
Description: Antivirus and antispyware scanner for both
UNIX-based and Windows-based partitions
[1] gentoo-china layman/gentoo-china
[2] gentoo-zh layman/gentoo-zh
root@fireball / #
So, avast is in gentoo-zh overlay, no AVG, and bitdefender-scanner is
in, drum roll please, gentoo-zh overlay. The guy keeping up with
gentoo-zh is busy on virus tools. lol
Oh, how did I get that you ask? This little command is neat.
eix-remote update
Note that gets cleared the next time you sync. At least it did here.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
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On Sat 22 Oct 2011 04:57:33 PM IST, Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
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Am 22.10.2011 13:29, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: On Sat 22 Oct 2011 04:57:33 PM IST, Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. I agree. Check that your ISP performs virus checks. If not or if you want to be extra sure, I think kmail can work with clamav -- at least it could in the old 3.x days when I still used it. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. Well, this is an oversimplification. 1) Any box running Wine is possibly as exposed to your classic pretty-women.exe mail attachments as any windows systems. 2) You should also be worried about Open/LibreOffice macro viruses as well as PDF vulnerabilities. Not to forget Flash, Java or Mozilla based exploits. Still, keeping your system up-to-date and observing the freshly revived GLSA notifications is more likely to save your butt than clamav. Cheers, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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Am Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:53 +0200 schrieb Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net: Am 22.10.2011 13:29, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: On Sat 22 Oct 2011 04:57:33 PM IST, Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. I agree. Check that your ISP performs virus checks. If not or if you want to be extra sure, I think kmail can work with clamav -- at least it could in the old 3.x days when I still used it. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. Well, this is an oversimplification. 1) Any box running Wine is possibly as exposed to your classic pretty-women.exe mail attachments as any windows systems. 2) You should also be worried about Open/LibreOffice macro viruses as well as PDF vulnerabilities. Not to forget Flash, Java or Mozilla based exploits. or image rendering library bugs. or mono. or tricky multi-platform viruses/worms. saying that linux based viruses don't exist is simply wrong. there may not be much in the wild, but they definitely are out there. it is probably more difficult to write a successful virus for linux than for windows for a number or reasons but in principle the problem is the same as on windows. i think the main technical reason is the heterogeneity of the installations. one or two local exploits and you can hit almost any windows XP installation. in linux you have to deal with n combinations of kernel-version, glibc-version, etc. and there is very little you can depend on to be in a fixed location in memory since different compiler options may already change that. there are ways around all this of course[1], but its a lot of work. too much for the limited impact. also, a lot of malware seems to depend on social engineering for infection these days. i think thats going to work less good on a lot of linux users because the system conditions you to think before you act. that aside, i predict that we will see some linux viruses or worms with larger infections in the future. i guess the first ones will be for ubuntu because it has a large base of rather consistent base installations. /jonas -- [1] fun idea: something exploiting bugs in the usb storage subsystem or file system handling code spreading to usb sticks. you could probably even make that multi-platform if you find the needed bugs for different OSes. Still, keeping your system up-to-date and observing the freshly revived GLSA notifications is more likely to save your butt than clamav. Cheers, Florian Philipp
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On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 15:22:20 Jonas de Buhr wrote: Am Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:53 +0200 schrieb Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net: Am 22.10.2011 13:29, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: On Sat 22 Oct 2011 04:57:33 PM IST, Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? IMHO, you don't need antivirus on a Linux box, unless you're going to run a mail relay, where you are responsible for saving recipents from viruses. I agree. Check that your ISP performs virus checks. If not or if you want to be extra sure, I think kmail can work with clamav -- at least it could in the old 3.x days when I still used it. The simplest reason of all is, Linux doesn't know how to execute Windows binaries. Well, this is an oversimplification. 1) Any box running Wine is possibly as exposed to your classic pretty-women.exe mail attachments as any windows systems. 2) You should also be worried about Open/LibreOffice macro viruses as well as PDF vulnerabilities. Not to forget Flash, Java or Mozilla based exploits. or image rendering library bugs. or mono. or tricky multi-platform viruses/worms. saying that linux based viruses don't exist is simply wrong. there may not be much in the wild, but they definitely are out there. it is probably more difficult to write a successful virus for linux than for windows for a number or reasons but in principle the problem is the same as on windows. i think the main technical reason is the heterogeneity of the installations. one or two local exploits and you can hit almost any windows XP installation. in linux you have to deal with n combinations of kernel-version, glibc-version, etc. and there is very little you can depend on to be in a fixed location in memory since different compiler options may already change that. there are ways around all this of course[1], but its a lot of work. too much for the limited impact. also, a lot of malware seems to depend on social engineering for infection these days. i think thats going to work less good on a lot of linux users because the system conditions you to think before you act. that aside, i predict that we will see some linux viruses or worms with larger infections in the future. i guess the first ones will be for ubuntu because it has a large base of rather consistent base installations. /jonas -- [1] fun idea: something exploiting bugs in the usb storage subsystem or file system handling code spreading to usb sticks. you could probably even make that multi-platform if you find the needed bugs for different OSes. Still, keeping your system up-to-date and observing the freshly revived GLSA notifications is more likely to save your butt than clamav. Thanks guys, good points. The USB vector reminds me of stuxnet, although this I understand was designed to infect Iranian MSWindows boxen. Anyway, the use case in point is to protect other MSWindows OS' when sending/forwarding office and pdf documents. So the user would like to be able to scan emails as they come in/sent out. Will clamav do this with KDE4? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Dale :-) :-)
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On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Dale Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 13:27, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. Nod32 is nice, but you need to patch dazuko into your kernel for it to work in real-time.
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
Mick wrote: Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? I found this: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/AVG_Anti-Virus There is a ebuild for it but it looks like it is not maintained. The last changelog was in 2008. It is here: http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-antivirus/avgfree Just to cover all the bases here, I have not followed the instructions or anything for either of those links so I can not say if it works or not. So, don't jump in if the water is to deep and you can't swim. o_O I can't swim either. Well, I swim like a lead ball is more like it. Even tho I don't use a AV tool, I do wish AVG was in portage. I know it works well on windoze and that says a lot. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?
On Oct 23, 2011 12:32 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of them: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of junk anymore. I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the link for the Linux version: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 Rgds,
