Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-15 Thread Midnight Toker
There is of course ClamAV for windows -all the power and Open Source- ness of Clam in a windows .exe http://www.clamwin.com/ Fligg. On 6 Mar 2006, at 18:26, Jarry wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-15 Thread Midnight Toker
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-15 Thread Bob Young
- From: Midnight Toker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:57 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus If you've been running without Anti Virus software for years now, how do you know the machines are clean of virus's? On 8 Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Krejci
Could try norman AV. www.norman.com On Monday 06 March 2006 12:26 pm, Jarry wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them,

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-10 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus -Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Bob Young wrote: PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Tim Igoe
Ghaith Hachem wrote: That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith A

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus [snip] As to insert App Name here not running without Admin rights, most of those cases can be taken care of with RunAs

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread neil
Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a virus. I have to wonder what you are

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Tim Igoe
neil wrote: Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a virus. I have to wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread neil
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: No, there are virii and worms in the wild. This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as virii. The correct plural of virus in the English language is viruses. Whilst the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing us with i

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:23 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user needs to understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to execute on their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Jarry
Bob Young wrote: In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. True, but unfortunatelly, there are too many win-applications (even serious ones), which does not work correctly (or at all) without

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Bob Young wrote: In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Jarry
Bob Young wrote: PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world, PowerUser is not. The primary and most important difference is the ability to *write* to the registry, It's perfectly safe to routinely log on as a PowerUser, as PowerUsers can *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 06 March 2006 08:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: There's no virus scanner for Linux, that is wrong. There are several. as there are (at least currently) no virusses for Linux. No, there are virii and worms in the wild. The scanners you'll find, will check for Windows virus. that

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-06 Thread Jarry
i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates, and despite of that I got viruses many times. Even clamav is better! They

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-06 Thread jed mallen
On 3/7/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates, and despite of that I got

[gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is clean i've been missing some documents from these partitions on windows but they are

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is clean i've been missing some

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Masood Ahmed
Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux clamav is good, and is also in portage.. just do emerge clamav and you'll have a good antivirus software running on your gentoo box. i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/6/06, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses. ofcourse but i wanted to make sure it's clean since i have a 120GB ext3 partition shared with windows so if the virus got in it would re-infect the windows once i reinstall it and be on all

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 06 March 2006 00:10, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus': I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses. Yes, but files accessible from a windows box, but stored on a linux box can become carriers. If they aren't cleaned, they could

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Masood Ahmed
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 06 March 2006 00:10, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus': I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses. Yes, but files accessible from a windows box, but stored on a linux box can become carriers

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is clean There's no virus scanner for Linux, as there are (at

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
yep exactly what i need, the way linux works would just make it hard to get infected but i had a shared partition infected and that would be a good reason to have a scanner On 3/6/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good