Programmer In Training wrote:
On 02/20/10 18:11, David Narvaez wrote:
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.
<snip>
Use clamav and just scan files as you get them. It might not
automatically integrate like you want it, but it's the best solution for
Linux.
I applaud the OP for caring about people on down the line, though the
OOo forum isn't the best place for this. Get on the clamav list and or
the AVG list (though if their product doesn't install properly, I would
recommend against using it), I'm sure there are ways to integrate it so
that clamav scans and cleans documents as you open them.
AVG does install, but there is no documentation for the command line only
execution. Trying to get the AVG board to send me the instructions on how
to run it properly, but it does not work with my command line attempts.
I wish
someone would make a GUI for the Linux version.
