Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

[Andrey Moshbear]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 13:27, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have
>> never
>> used an antivirus on Linux.  This page that I googled up shows a number of
>> them:
>>
>>   http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/
>>
>> Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/.
>>
>> The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP
>> mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP.
>>
>> What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup?
>
> I have to agree with most everyone else on this one.  You don't really need
> a anit-virus software to protect yourself.  I do think it is good that you
> want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you
> know not to spread them around to others who can be infected.  I used to do
> this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to
> others.  Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free.  If I get a
> video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a
> link to that.  I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean.
>
> If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do
> have to think before hitting forward too.  I think people have figured out I
> don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of "junk" anymore.
>
> I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted.  I have that on my brothers
> XP box.  He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for.  If you can
> get that running on Linux, then that would be great.  Another pretty good
> one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still.
>

Nod32 is nice, but you need to patch dazuko into your kernel for it to
work in real-time.