On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:33:38 pm Sloan wrote: > Registration Account wrote: > > Adam, hi there > > > > clamAV is NOT a real time ant-virus application. If you > > copy an infected file onto you disk then is will be > > copied across without saying anything. > > It depends on how you use it. The primary use of any antivirus > application on linux machines is basically as a courtesy to protect > windoze clients. > > When used on a mail server, clamav scans incoming messages for viruses, > which is pretty close to real time. > > When used on a samba server, clamav provides on-access virus protection > for pc clients via samba-vscan, which is about as real time as it gets. > > It's a very good thing that clamav is lightweight and non-intrusive by > default. I'd be pretty unhappy with a product that wasted system > resources constantly monitoring and scanning for windoze viruses on my > linux desktop system. I'd much rather use my CPU cycles on something > useful, say web browsing, gaming or multimedia ;) > > Joe
The thing is that Clamav seems to think that the templates for Krita are virus, but when I run avast to double check Clamav's findings avast comes up clean. So the only use I have for Clamav right now is for scanning my emails for virus. The only reason I need an anti virus on Linux is for email scanning, done with Kmail, and scanning of my Windows.
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