Anti-Virus Programs

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 19 14:23:34 UTC 2005


Donatas G. wrote:

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> Derek Broughton ra??:
>> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 19 October 2005 00:48, Irena and Richard Jenkins wrote:
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>>>>I've found two separate programs: (1) Firestarter and (2) Guarddog.
>>>>Tried them both briefly but was disappointed in the low level of
>>>>integration of
>>>>either into Kubuntu.  Neither was configured to start automatically ...
>>>>and Guarddog kept offering to change its configuration.
>>>
>>>Both, guarddog and firestarter are not anti-virus software but firewalls
>>>[0].
>> 
>> 
>> On top of that, I don't know about firestarter but guarddog is a gnome
>> app.
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> The reverse is true: firestarter is Gnome, GuardDog is KDE (even though
> it is without a K :)

Well, hardly the reverse - I didn't know about firestarter :-)  But I was
clearly wrong about guarddog (I could have sworn it was a GTK app). 
Guarddog has the oddest set of dependencies - libxinerama? libxrandr???
-- 
derek





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