Ubunto 8.10 and AVG 7.5.51

[Dirk Freitag]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Steve Reilly wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>> I just downloaded AVG 7.5.51-a1423 and I can't get working correctly.
>>>> I know I need to get license number but this is only the free ver so
>>>> where do I get that from.
>>>>
>>> You don't need that here :) Welcome to the real world!
>>>
>> agreed, unless you plan on forwarding a bunch of viruses and untested
>> .exe files to your "friends" on windows boxes, then theres absolutely no
>> need for antivirus software on linux.
>>
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> At the risk of starting another long, pointless sub-thread, the only way 
> to make sure you're not forwarding a bunch of binaries and untested exe 
> files to your friends is to run some kind of anti-virus software.
> 
> All my boxes that interact with Windows clients (which is nigh on all of 
> them) run anti-virus software. The fact that the boxes themselves are 
> impervious to the bulk of what they are looking for doesn't mean they 
> should ignore them and leave them be to go and destroy other people's 
> computers.
> 
> I don't know why Chris feels the need to run anti-virus software, and I 
> don't think it's entirely fair to just tell him he's wrong without 
> knowing why. Sure, suggest that it's not always neccesary, but I 
> _really_ dislike the whole "that's a Windows problem, we'll sit and 
> watch" mentality.
> 
> Anyway, rant over, back to helpining
> 

I must say, Avi, that until you said that, I never thought of it that 
way.  I would say the same thing that other people said in response to 
this that anti-virus is not needed.  The only question now is that can a 
linux anti-virus detect windows bases viruses?  I am sorry if this seems 
as a silly question, but as I have never run anti-virus under Linux, so 
I do not know.  :)


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Dirk Freitag
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