Free antiVIrus software for linux.. well, it's not a sign that Linux is now prone to virus, but some people really can't just live without it ( I meant for the antivirus, not the virus )

1. Avast for linux - http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html
2. Grisoft - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5

if you find one, then just post it on this thread...

F-prot is free too:

http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/

in the sense personal use at home

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Panda: http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp

There's always AVG from Grisoft.

NOD32, gents?

ESET NOD32 is not free. Since the threat of virus in Linux is weak at best, paying for something seems too disparate.

But a mailserver admin would definitely consider buying it if the detection was better (iirc NOD32 had a good reputation back in the day..). Many of the "linux virus scanners" just scan for Windows viruses. Does your ISP offer spam/virus scanning? -- they could well be using one of these solutions.

I wouldnt be surprised if many of the free ones were limited and had pay counterparts for use in such larger scale situations.

Another vote for AVG.

Not that you need it. Or any other AV, if you're using a Unix-based OS. But I guess you could use it if you were running a mail server that served Windows clients.

F-Prot seems being a very bad product (while the windows version is pretty good- even back in the DOS days).
15 wildlist misses in the last comparative test of Virus Bulletin is simply way too many.

A there any known viruses to which current Linux is vulnerable?

None, really- just some OOo macros and php scripts, which have pretty limited impact (at worst they will screw a couple of things at your local user account). But the system core will not feel anything.

OT: I've always found this funny... how people say "oh, it won't be bad, you'll just lose your home directory".

On Linux, your home dir is the worst thing you can lose. That's where your irreplacable data is. You can tell people to backup, but even then its easy to lose a day or two of work even if you do backup.

Personally, I'd rather keep my home dir and lose my system -- a linux install is cheap and quick. I can get Arch up and running nominal in less than an hour. A basic Mandriva install can be installed with internet, office, email and other basic capabilities running in less than half an hour -- if not out of the box.

So... let's not get ahead of ourselves here -- Linux isnt invulnerable, it just isnt being targetted yet. Inevitably, if Linux does get a larger market share on the desktop it will become a greater target. And in that case, you can expect to see a lot of emails, from which people will _still_ stupidly click and run the attachment. Or dodgy websites. Or bad passwords. Humans are still the biggest security flaw.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. It seems to me many of the finest minds in computer science are looking for vulnerabilities on a daily basis. Just because they don't find gaping security holes, that doesn't mean they're not looking.



That is absolutely true.

I play a lot of WoW, and from time to time you'll get somebody spewing the most shocking racial jokes in public chat, which is a guaranteed way to get one's account permanently banned. I always interpret these incidents thusly: Somebody didn't change his password before dumping his girlfriend. Mwwwhahahahaha.

While to some extent you may be right, I'm sure you also know that the separation of permissions in Linux and other *nixes plays a large part in keeping Linux more secure. No OS is perfect, and permissions can certainly be circumvented, but that is not an issue of Linux - but rather just one of those things you "have to deal with" when working in any OS.

Do I think as Linux becomes more popular, we'll start seeing more vulnerabilities being exploited? Maybe - but looking at how well vulnerabilities in Linux and it's related software are handled already, I think we'll see them get closed up. We may even see them get closed faster, as an increase in Linux users almost assuredly will increase the amount of resources dedicated by the big companies, and also an increase in coders willing to help out. This would mean more eyes, in turn meaning more vulnerabilities found and/or fixed in a shorter amount of time.

But, we'll see, I suppose.

Actually we are all talking about the same thing: Linux isn't invulnerable, because no OS is... and yes, the main OS vulnerability is the users, not the OS- but unike their windows counterparts, Linux users STILL have the right to do silly things at no cost.

Quothe aioshin : "Free antiVIrus software for linux.. well, it's not a sign that Linux is now prone to virus, but some people really can't just live without it ( I meant for the antivirus, not the virus tongue.gif )

1. Avast for linux - http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html
2. Grisoft - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5

if you find one, then just post it on this thread... "



Would you be so kind to tell me:

Which package shoould I download for Mandriva: *.rpm or the tarball and how to run the program - e.g. Avast?

thank you.

I was going to answer the last question of the last post but decided I didn't want the possibility of seeming to be rude.

Cheers. John.

On the other hand, run the rpm. JB.

Download the rpm file. It should run with Mandriva.

rpm = Mandriva, Suse, Fedora, RedHat compatible
deb = Ubuntu, Debian, Sidux compatible
tar = tarballs are compatible with all linuxes but are only the uncompiled version of the software. You will need some applications (like make) in order to install tarballs on your ystem. This way is more complicated and should only be taken into consideration, if there ain't no other option available (or if the user wants to use the tarballs for specific reasons)

If you install a rpm, you should get a menu entry/shortcut to the application automatically.

If I can recall well, Avast needs dazuko kernel modules being installed to run.