[ubuntu-in] anti-virus

[Ravi Shanker]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 00:22 +0530, mehul wrote:
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> On 5/15/07, Ravi Shanker <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Go for Avast, 
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> On linux? I have seen a few times that avast detects localisation
> files on linux as virus, which scares the new users to delete them.
> I doubt if such an anti-virus could be called good, since that false 
> positive seems to have not been cleared since a couple of years.

I was talking about Avast on Windows Machines. I said we don't need any
antivirus on a Desktop Linux (Ubuntu) Machine.
Avast got better with its new release. Since the opensource package
clamav is not a realtime antivirus which runs always, so the better and
free would be Avast.