Chris Boot wrote:
On 25 Nov 2009, at 08:45, Jozsef wrote:
Willi Mann wrote:
Hi!
When will clamav 0.95.3 be released in volatile?
thank you
WM
Hi
clamav is some kind of antivirus and it works on linux but you must to run it
manually. I don't know the nature of viruses and rootkits for linux but for
windows that woudn't be of too much help.
Anybody had some experience with viruses or rootkits on linux?
Would be glad to hear some info about that kind of things :)
Bit of a thread hijack going on here but I'll bite. In my experience people
tend to use ClamAV on Linux mostly to defend against viruses getting on their
Windows systems, for example on a mail gateway or web proxy. That way ClamAV
can stop the viruses it knows about from ever getting to the Windows machines
in the first place.
ClamAV also picks up a few Linux malware as well, and I'm pretty sure I've seen
an on-access scanning module that plugs into ClamAV as well, but I've never
used that functionality.
HTH,
Chris
Ah OK I see. People cleaning viruses from Windows system while they are
running ClamAV on Linux :) Very interesting.
That Linux malwares are weak then, if you can clean them up without
on-access scanning.
Guess it's not the case with rootkits, for example. But personally I
never had an issue with viruses or anything, on Linux. At least I didn't
notice anything like that so far. But had a problem with them so many
times on Windows.
Didn't see that module before. If it is available, is it free?
Best,
Jozsef
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