Antivirus?

[Shelly]

WIndows has Norton Antivirus 2002. Are there any programs (free or purchase) that you guys feel are good?

[ansivirus]

Well I am kinda of bias being an employee of the company but McAfee has a Linux version of virusscan.

-ansiVirus


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[Dark Ninja]

Does McAfee follow the whole, "Lotsa Linux stuff is free" policy?

Anyway...the chance of receiving a virus under Linux is rather slim - due to permissions. That's why you don't run as root, cause it protects you against that sort of thing. Also, I believe if you check out www.tucows.com, (http://www.tucows.com,) there is another antivirus program free for download.


Dark Ninja

[Keyser Soze]

I would probably pass on installing av on a linux box, the chances of infection are very slim and if you take standard precautions: log in as a user and not root, secure your configuration, and avoid opening suspicious mail or software...you should be fine. Running linux in the first place is the best av there is. And, not to offend, but working in a corporate environment, I wouldn't put anything made by McCrashee on my computer. We tried it several times over the last few years on various platforms (9x,NT,2k) and it has more than it's share of bugs. Just be happy with a tight configuration and the lack of windoze on that box, you'll be fine.

[Hena]

F-secure (http://www.f-secure.com/) has a linux antivirus program. It's not free, but as well as products go, f-secures windows version of antivirus is good.