Antivirus for Ubuntu

James Gray james.gray at dot.com.au
Fri May 25 00:04:01 UTC 2007


On Fri, 25 May 2007 03:50:30 am Ben Edwards wrote:
> I use xubuntu at work but there is only one other Linux desktop user.
> I was chatting to my boss today and one of the things the head of IT
> is nervous about is Antivirus on Linux.  Thats not go the you dont
> need it route, it the Linux desktop becomes popular there will be
> viruses, Trojans etc.  He knows it may not be necessary but to keep
> the business happy we need to use it. The question is are there any
> decent centrally managed anti virus products around for linux?
>
> Ben

Open Source:
- ClamAV

Closed Source:
- Avast
- Sophos (this will cost a bomb but is enterprise-grade centrally managed, 
cross-platform antivirus solution).


James
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