Antivirus

[Bart Silverstrim]

steve wrote:
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> Vitorio Okio wrote:
> | "Hex1a4" <hex1a4 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> | news:20080616175432.7161ba51 at wendy...
> |> ClamAV which is in the repositories, or AVG which is at
> |> http://free.grisoft.com/.
> |>
> |> If you go with ClamAV you might also want to install the *clamtk*
> |> package which is a ClamAV GUI.
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> |
> | I've tried Clamtk once upon time, found it quite usless and removed.
> | As soon you have ClamAV installed it's much easier just to run
> | clamscan from console supplying path to directory you want to scan.
> |
> | $:clamscan ~
> | or
> | $sudo clamscan /
> |
> | is really not difficult to remember and to type.
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> agreed, but, Im going to side with the "no need for antivirus" camp.
> Been solely using linux for 7 years, and never had a need for it.  Hell,
> even with windows, if your intelligent about the way you do things,
> theres no need for it there either. Running mixed windows (son-2) and
> linux (4-me) in this house

I've seen people claim they don't need it for Windows, but there's just 
too many cases where just web browsing with your user privileges under 
Windows architecture can cause problems. Maybe the way Vista annoys 
users for every damn action short of sneezing requires you to click 
through it the situation's different, but I don't trust it. 
Unfortunately there's a number of Windows programs that can't deal with 
the security settings, so if you don't want to deal with hassle you end 
up running in a less secure state and so...it's a pain.