Re: [Scottish] Linux Anti-Virus etc.....?
babaguy wrote: > Dear All, Some of you might be happy to know I am at last > [snip] Jings, Paul, but your emails are bloody hard to read :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search anti-virus clamsmtp - virus-scanning SMTP proxy havp - HTTP Anti Virus Proxy mailscanner - email virus scanner and spam tagger picalib - Set of PICA helper scripts and configuration files clamav - antivirus scanner for Unix clamav-base - base package for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix clamav-daemon - antivirus scanner daemon clamav-docs - documentation package for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix clamav-freshclam - downloads clamav virus databases from the Internet clamav-milter - antivirus scanner for sendmail clamav-testfiles - use these files to test that your Antivirus program works libclamav-dev - clam Antivirus library development files libclamav1 - virus scanner library ClamAV - www.clamav.org - is probably one of the best known anti-virus solutions on Linux. Plenty of others such as Panda, F-PROT, Vexira, Kaspersky, and AVG (7.1, and in RPM form, but the alien package is quite good at converting RPMs to debs for install on Debian/Ubuntu) can be found simply by googling for linux anti-virus - 33.4m search results in all, allegedly! I personally don't run any anti-virus on my main server or any of my other linux kit, with the caveat that I run clamav on my inbound email server. I run Symantec 10 on my windows xp desktop to make sure nothing squeaks through on that side. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter. U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | -- Tim Westwood, Zane Lowe, R1, Dec 2005 ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Linux Anti-Virus etc.....?
Dear All, Some of you might be happy to know I am at last online via this Linux (Ubuntu) box.! "Ready for my next big project now," (as an Electron Club member just wrote after finally enabling his return key on an IBM Thinkpad (ebay verson).Tried to install Avast! - brought it in first as a .deb package but the system didn't recognise it - then brought in the tarball and system asked me to "extract" it - which I did, and it put itself into /usr /bin and /share directories (from what I could find...)But when I open these files there is nothing there - the Avast key came to my e-mail, but the message that came with it was instructions for installing on a Windows systemsigh.Been into the Avast4workstation forum and there are plenty of people who have had BOO-COO dificulty installing Avast.(We put Avast on the windows machine a week or so ago because apparently AVG stopped supporting the kernal of XP in favour of Vista - or this may be their sneaky "upgrade to version 7.5" message in reality.)What anti-virus software do any of you use? - how did you download it and install it? - Do I need to download any installers or package management tools from the Ubuntu "Universe" or wherever to actually get the programme recognised and installed?I have tried to use the "Add Applications" tool in Ubuntu and also the Synaptic Pkg Manager - but I don't really understand all they ask me to do (if anything) - I've tried using the ' ls ' command and there are no results for Avast.My computer is already running slower & slowerAny help would be greatly appreciated ! As ever, thanking you in advance,- Paul ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
