Antivirus

[NoOp]

On 06/17/2008 05:32 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Graham Watkins wrote:
>> Andrea Monaco wrote:
>>> Can you suggest me a good Ubuntu antivirus?
[snip]
>> Clamav, with Avscan for a front-end works for me. Many argue that 
>> anti-virus software is unecessary for pure linux systems because all 
>> viruses (virii?) are written for Windows and they might be right.  
>> However, this may not be true forever and I think it's best not to be  
>> too complacent.
> 
> Only if there's a vulnerability would you need to worry about it. A 
> program, which a virus is, would only have access to what the user has 
> access to or it's not a virus. Don't run as root and you shouldn't need 
> to worry about a virus installing itself into the system area.
> 

As it is becoming more common to install Ubuntu as an 'application' on a
windows system via WUBI, and to share files across NTFS etc., and to
have dual-boot & virtual systems whereby a windows system can read/write
to the linux drive/partition, it's probably a good idea to use an AV.

In addition to clamav, I've been pretty happy with AVG:
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afl