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On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 18:26:45 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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> > The free bitdefender only offers MSWindows downloads: |
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> > http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html#System Requirements |
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> > To use bitdefender for good on a *nix it seems that you have to pay ... |
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> > :( |
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> > Have I got this wrong? |
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> > -- |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Mick |
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> Mick, |
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> At the upper left of the page you linked to there was a link to ask |
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> for a free license for personal use: |
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> http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ |
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Nice! Thanks, I missed that! |
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> Do any folks here regularly run virus scanning on Gentoo boxes? |
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> Reading through the reasons you might want to I still see lack of root |
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> access and quick fixes for security problems at Linux advantages. Only |
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> the fact that Linux is more widely used every day is a reason to be |
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> concerned about anyone trying to attack. (I think.) |
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> Do good backups of /home. |
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I have never run an antivirus apps on any of my boxen. Only rkhunter and |
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chkrootkit. |
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However, my other half deals with clients who sent and receive messages from |
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their MSWindows machines that are occasionally infected with malicious |
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MSWindows executables. She wants to be able to check attachments in such a |
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case, advise them and not forward further. |
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Meanwhile, I've installed avast! and I'm now running a mammoth scan on an ntfs |
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partition. It picked up two trojans. I suspect that they are false |
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positives, but will investigate further. One of the files it picked up is the |
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pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. |
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Hmm .... it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back up I |
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made of a legit DVD) are "... a decompression bomb!" Puleeeeeze! o_O |
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Regards, |
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Mick |