Ubunto 8.10 and AVG 7.5.51

[Dirk Freitag]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Dirk Freitag wrote:
> 
>> That's really interesting.  So what would be the best Linux AV?
> 
> Depends on what you're going to do.
> 
> AV is largely a PITA in my opinion...it takes up CPU cycles and disk use 
> and still there's a lag between malware being released and you getting a 
> signature, if it even detects the issue in a reasonable amount of time. 
> It's like having body armor that just swings around your body, shielding 
> some percentage of you at any given time. And you can't overlap AV's 
> because they can interfere with each other.
> 
> If you're running a mail server, ClamAV would be best bet, although I 
> prefer just blocking executable attachments, period. If I could I'd 
> sanitize everything to text too, stripping out the dancing mini-pics and 
> day-glo backgrounds.
> 
> I've never heard of someone, a home linux user, accidentally sending 
> Windows viruses to Windows users. Is it possible? Sure...if you're doing 
> file sharing and/or forwarding executables to people. But I've not seen 
> it happen personally. Or if you're playing with WINE and run a Windows 
> malware executable I suppose it's also possible.
> 
> *shrug*
> 
> If you want automated on-access-scanning (which ClamAV doesn't really 
> do, it's on-demand without some hacking around) use f-prot or AVG. I've 
> used AVG for home systems. But it's not a cure-all. No AV is. Paranoid 
> application of best practices is the closest you'll come to a cure...
> 

Bart,

    I appreciate the information and your take on it.  Definitely 
interesting stuff.  I don't do a lot of file sharing from my laptop, but 
I am going to be setting up a Linux server in my apartment for use as 
FTP.  I may in the future setup a mail server, but that is far away at 
this point.  Thank you again for your input, and I will definitely be 
doing research into the different AVs for Linux.


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Dirk Freitag
Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]

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