anti virus

[ieuuk]

hey all,

are there any free, quality, or all of the above anti virus programs for core 2/3? Also is it worth having anti virus?

thanks..

[ilja]

Is it worth having antivirus for what purposes?
For a Windows client - yes
For a Linux machine - no
Not using Linux as root, and SElinux is a much better protection.

[Quella]

I believe there is a tool called something like "Clam Antivirus" which is used for servers that have Samba (Windows) Shares, or for mail scanning. Not sure if it is a workstation tool or not.

Quella

[imdeemvp]

Here you go: http://www.clamav.net/

[ieuuk]

cool stuff - thanks for that.

i was trying to have a search around the web with google looking for anti virus but it was pretty hopeless... most of them are not updated anymore.

[ieuuk]

Originally Posted by ilja

Is it worth having antivirus for what purposes?
For a Windows client - yes
For a Linux machine - no
Not using Linux as root, and SElinux is a much better protection.

it will be for a home server running fedora core 2 doing windows shares, bit of webserving - mysql... other odd bits.

[Quella]

You may want to give Clam a try then. It sounds like you will be storing Windows files that may get infected via shares on your Fedora Box. I have no used it myself, but I hear that many use it on mail scanners and such. Hope it works for you.

Quella

[ilja]

For this purposes I can recommend this :
http://www.antivir.de/en/produkte/an...ver/index.html

It is a little, but very powerfull german antivirus. It is not opensource, but free as beer.

[foolish]

There's clamAV packages available in fedora.us: See www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

You only need antivirus in linux if you're going to be sharing a lot of files with windows users, to protect them. There are no virus threat to linux. So if you run a mail server, file server or similar for windows users, install clamAV, if not, don't bother.

[carlos]

try
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/
It's free (as in free beer).

[sailor]

I have been using BitDefender(free) for quite a while http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php to scan my downloads/mail
...F-Prot always stops working after a few scans, not sure what is going on with it, but it has happened everytime I have installed it.

[taylor65]

What viruses are there for linux? Are there any? The only thing I ever heard about is the one where a valid user on a system could execute code to become root without the root password. But even that required a valid user account to gain access to the system.

[ieuuk]

Originally Posted by carlos

try
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/
It's free (as in free beer).

sounds good - does it mean that i have to get everyone else one tho?

[jdonz]

there is a good article in the Dec. issue of Linux Journal that talks about antivirus. "Beating Spam and Viruses with amavisd-new and Maia Mailguard." here is the link:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7427 It might answer some questions for you

[crackers]

Originally Posted by taylor65

What viruses are there for linux? Are there any? The only thing I ever heard about is the one where a valid user on a system could execute code to become root without the root password. But even that required a valid user account to gain access to the system.

What you're talking are some possible exploits in non-patched programs/libraries that might allow a local user to gain temporary root access. These exploits are typically found and patched very quickly. As you noted, they have to actually get onto the system first to take advantage of them.