On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> The only a.v. is KlamAV and it does not support anything except Kmail and > Evolution. > I miss the residentual stuff that made sure the documents that come into > OOo or downloaded, > are clean from nasties. Even if Ubuntu do not get many, I could still get > a .doc from > someone with a nasty and edit it, pass it along, then POW someone down the > line > wants to it me. > I'm not sure I understand what's the use of an antivirus for any program in Linux. If I was to worry about viruses on other users' computers, I'd advice them to use Linux as well. One thing you do need to care about is automatic macro execution on documents, but OO already takes care of that. For anything else, I'm not surprised Ubuntu users didn't get back to you about an antivirus: Linux users are not the ones to be asked about that. AVG does have a Linux version, but it does not install properly. If I have > to, I will > try WINE, but it a lots case since the disk format structure is in the mix. > If AVG integrates with OO in some way and is going to solve your problem, then you should ask for support on AVG forums [0] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > [0] http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum David E. Narváez
