Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
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?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread James Broadhead
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread James Broadhead
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-29 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-29 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-29 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-29 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread du yang
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Florian Philipp
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Jonas de Buhr
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Andrey Moshbear
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:  

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
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: