Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM,  <valhalla2100 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Your reply is wrong.
>
> I was infected when I checked out a Google Alert
> PhotoShop Layer.  Turned out that the URl was not
> for information on layers.  I went to a page that
> had PhotoShop [and other text that I did not get
> to read] on it and I was instantly taken to anot
> horrible page.  Pop-ups and when I tried to use
> the computer the next day my e/m did not work.
> I rebooted and nothing worked.

I am sorry, but I can't understand what you're saying here. For
example, what is "e/m"?

> My solution was to buy a new hard drive and switch
> from Ubuntu to Mint.

That seems very drastic on one hand - why not simply reformat &
reinstall if you though you had an infection? On the other hand, it's
rather inadequate, since Mint is just a custom version of Ubuntu &
offers you no more protection.

In reality, at the worst, simply deleting your Firefox profile &
creating a new one would have been fine even if a rogue script had
managed to change your homepage & other settings. But even if it did -
and I do not recall hearing of any such thing - then that is not a
virus. A virus is a program that spreads from one computer to another,
by stealth, under its own power. A rogue webpage is not a virus.

Also, why look at Photoshop pages from Linux? Photoshop doesn't run on
Linux. If you were using Photoshop via WINE or a Windows VM, it *is*
possible to infect *them* with Windows viruses.

Finally, I & many others would also be very interested to know /what/
page did this and where you found it.

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