Re: [newbies] Anti-virus options for Linux

[Andrew Jorgensen]

I hear a lot about people getting viruses. It's all very strange to me. Even in windows all I do is keep my systems up to date use common sense with email attachments. I don't think I've been infected since my brothers used to use pirated software back in DOS. There are linux viruses, but I've never smelled one personally.

Where virus software really is important is your email server, if you have other people using your server. I suppose there probably are open source solutions, but who would provide the virus definitions? Virus checking is fundamentally a commercial thing because there has to be someone updating virus definitions. (Or writing new viruses as McAffee was once caught doing. They released a definition file that included the signature of a virus that hadn't shown up in the wild yet. I never trusted McAffee anyway.)

Tony Vance wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've heard that viruses are less of a threat for unix-based machines,
but is it still wise to use anti-virus software?  If so, what are the
options?  Any open source options?

Best,

Tony

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