Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 21:31:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:03:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ClamVM has poor detection rates. You might want to look into AVG Free for Linux. Do you have any documentation for this? I'm not saying you're wrong, rather that I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.10.2011 09:49, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is

[gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/22/2011 02:27 PM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Adam Carter
there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need a virus scanner. Yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 22, 2011 9:10 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need a

[gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need a virus scanner. Yet. There

[gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/22/2011 06:40 PM, Mick wrote: [...] 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? ClamVM has poor detection

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: There are literally *millions* of Windows viruses. I use Kaspersky in my Windows VMs. 6,028,900 virus signatures as of an update run 1 hour ago... 6,029,804 now... Go figure... - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:03:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ClamVM has poor detection rates. You might want to look into AVG Free for Linux. Do you have any documentation for this? I'm not saying you're wrong, rather that I'd like to know more. -- Neil Bothwick Assembler: (n.) a minor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 22.10.2011 17:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware But yeah, on a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Adam Carter
Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, there isn't a good way of getting infected.  On Windows, you download random executables from the net.  On Gentoo, you install your stuff through portage.  It's nearly impossible to get infected. except when someone puts up