What AV software do you use ?

gumma · #1 29th July 2004, 10:23 AM

I wanted to know a bit about what good antivirus software is good to use ?
right now I have MKS_VIR 2004 and wanted to start like a poll and find out what others use.

Jman · #2 29th July 2004, 12:47 PM

clamav. RPMs at dag. Just add this to /etc/yum.conf

Code:

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core $releasever
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

run

Code:

yum install clamav

To do a scan:

Code:

clamscan

earobinson111 · #3 29th July 2004, 12:49 PM

are there a lot of linux viruses? do you need a anti virus

im a uni student on a huge network with 1000 + should i bother?

imdeemvp · #4 29th July 2004, 02:02 PM

there are some but they dont affect your system! www.grisoft.com i believe they offer antivirus for linux too

earobinson111 · #5 29th July 2004, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by imdeemvp

there are some but they dont affect your system! www.grisoft.com i believe they offer antivirus for linux too

explain? im not sure i understand this so is it worth it or not and if they dont afffect my system what do they do

imdeemvp · #6 29th July 2004, 02:06 PM

then you may wanna read this: http://librenix.com/?inode=21

they talk about Bliss and Staog here....

earobinson111 · #7 29th July 2004, 02:12 PM

ok so no linux viruses why the AV?

imdeemvp · #8 29th July 2004, 02:39 PM

i guess just to be on the safe side the only thing i use its the firewall....

kosmosik · #9 29th July 2004, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by earobinson111

are there a lot of linux viruses? do you need a anti virus

im a uni student on a huge network with 1000 + should i bother?

there are literaly none viruses for Linux (ok one hundred but none of them actually works or something)... you don't need AV to protect Linux system. you only need AV on Linux when it is used as server serving mail and files for Windows clients (Windows spreads this fauna).

on Linux you should be concerned more on system security. like hardening defaults, setting up things properly (I don't mean firewall, firewall has nothing to do with security), set up intrusion detection system and so on... but that is for servers. if your computer is desktop you don't need to do nothing to be secure... just install updates and that is it. we don't have viruses, spyware, addware and so on on Linux... it simply does not exists

Ned · #10 30th July 2004, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by kosmosik

there are literaly noneIf your computer is desktop you don't need to do nothing to be secure... just install updates and that is it. we don't have viruses, spyware, addware and so on on Linux... it simply does not exists

You should at the very least turn off services that are not needed.

bamboo_spider · #11 30th July 2004, 02:40 AM

Hi

I can understand that updates are required for windows os' , there are so many holes being found every day but why are updates important for Linux

and there are some related questions

1. How does one setup to get updates for a FC 1 distro and for the relevant kernal

2. How much bandwidth is required for a norml update and what is the frequency

3. Where does one start from if one has never done an update

4, and how do we keep track

Thanks

kosmosik · #12 30th July 2004, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bamboo_spider

I can understand that updates are required for windows os' , there are so many holes being found every day but why are updates important for Linux

because there is so many holes being found every day in/on Linux...

Quote:

Originally Posted by bamboo_spider

1. How does one setup to get updates for a FC 1 distro and for the relevant kernal

it already is set up to work like this out-of-the-box - haven't you noticed an icon with exclamation sitting in tray? that icon does it. also you can use alternative way - apt, yum, up2date and so on...

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Originally Posted by bamboo_spider

2. How much bandwidth is required for a norml update and what is the frequency

sometime you get like 100MB updates, sometime it is 50KB - hard to say...

Ned · #13 30th July 2004, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by bamboo_spider

Hi
I can understand that updates are required for windows os' , there are so many holes being found every day but why are updates important for Linux

As mentioned in the previous post, there are security holes found in linux too. The main difference is that the virus/exploit writers seem to target MS OSes more that linux as firstly there's probably more MS machines out there to attack and secondly linux users are normally more saavy when it comes to securing and protecting their machines.

The up2date system built into fedora is no more difficult to use than MS updates

Ned

gumma · #14 30th July 2004, 03:41 AM

You do not need a AV program for linux however if using linux for a file server and windows being the client then you should consider to get a antivirus scan for linux. We use MKS_VIR 2004 for linux and it works great abit hard to setup but its a good software to use. the site is http://www.stormbyte.com or www.mks.com.pl

micha · #15 30th July 2004, 04:06 AM

Note that clamav is able to scan mbox files (which Norton AntiVirus is not able to scan):

Code:

clamscan --mbox mymaildir