F-PROT antivirus for linux

[Ioannis Vranos]

I have been using XFPROT for quite some time, I do not think it is a
trojan or something. If it was, all this time it exists it would be
recognised by antivirus scanners. Besides its source code is available.


XFPROT comes with a non-virus named EICAR, which is a standard way to
test if some antivirus really works:

http://www.rexswain.com/eicar.html





Res wrote:
> why would you use something that is not released, distributed or supported 
> by the anti virus company, thats a perfect way for a trojan devloper to 
> 0wn you.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
>> Corrected:
>>
>>> f-prot for linux is even better, it is free, it doesn't require a key
>>> and also there is xfprot.
>>
>> More precisely F-PROT can be downloaded from here (version 4.6.8)
>>
>> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
>>
>>
>> and XFPROT from here:
>>
>> http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot