[TriLUG] Antivirus for Linux

Corey Mutter corey at mutternet.com
Sat Feb 19 23:29:57 EST 2005


On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:23:22PM -0500, Scott G. Hall wrote:
> What is your recommendations for antivirus and anti-adware utilities
> for Linux?  Currently I have been using f-prot and its frontend QtFprot
> to scan MS-Windows partitions and shares.  My recent concern is with
> RPM and DEB packages that may be hiding something.  But I'll listen to
> other comments as well.

I like ClamAV (www.clamav.net). I use it at home and work to scan my 
email (via MIMEDefang). So far I haven't seen any worms or viruses get
through it, and it's free as in speech. 

Corey




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