[Tfug] AVG antivirus for linux

[Tim Ottinger]

I don't use any anti-virus for Linux, b/c most of the problems tend to be
with getting rooted not from viruses.  I use stronger passwords than most
of my friends, and I generally don't allow login as root.  I have so far not

needed any.  I also keep up on my security updates from Ubuntu, et al.

I suspect that there will someday be openoffice or thunderbird or firefox
viruses sometime, but so far I'm not worried.



On 1/12/07, Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
>
> Angus -
> Thank you-
> All our mail and business systems are windows, and our admin takes care of
> all that. We just have a few linux boxes (and virtual linux boxes on
> windows) that are for instruments.  They're connected to the lan and can
> see
> the web.  I can probably live with the malware others were talking about
> --
> so I'll probably not get a special anti virus ----
> Joe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> > Angus Scott-Fleming
> >
> > AFAIK most "AV for Linux" is installed on mail-processing systems
> > to catch the
> > Windows-viruses as they pass through.  CopFilter, for example,
> > has hooks to
> > AVG, ClamAV, and F-Prot, in its mail-processing stuff.
> >
> > Angus
> >
> >
>
>
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