Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux?
if so what are some good ones to use?
Eric Clark wrote:
Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux?
Not unless your running a mail server or file server that serves clients that are vulnerable to viruses.
if so what are some good ones to use?
I've always liked Sophos myself, very high quality.
nate
Eric Clark wrote:
Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux?
if so what are some good ones to use?
Will the software be used in a commercial environment? If not, then you could use AVG from Grisoft:- http://free.avg.com/download I've used it for a couple of years now and haven't had any problems. Come to think of it, it hasn't found any viruses either!?!?! Perhaps I've been lucky, but I prefer to believe my email server is fairly good at rejecting spam etc.
If you are using it in a commercial environment, you can purchase a subscription server licence for Linux from them. http://www.avg.com/product-avg-server-edition-for-linux
Regards,
Ian
Will the software be used in a commercial environment? If not, then you could use AVG from Grisoft:- http://free.avg.com/download I've used it for a couple of years now and haven't had any problems. Come to think of it, it hasn't found any viruses either!?!?! Perhaps I've been lucky, but I prefer to believe my email server is fairly good at rejecting spam etc.
I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed it on a dual-booted (XP/Debian) Laptop w/ 512M RAM and after upgrading from 7 to 8 my machine in XP began to lag badly.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew.kay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed it on a dual-booted (XP/Debian) Laptop w/ 512M RAM and after upgrading from 7 to 8 my machine in XP began to lag badly.
That seems to be the pattern with anti-virus software. Starts out good and bloats out. I remember when McAfee and Norton (or its IBM variant) were good anti-virus applications. Then I went to AVG, used it from six on up, and also got tired of its bloat in 8. When I rebuilt my wife's XP computer I went with Avast! -- the jury is still out on that.
Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew.kay@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed it on a dual-booted (XP/Debian) Laptop w/ 512M RAM and after upgrading from 7 to 8 my machine in XP began to lag badly.
That seems to be the pattern with anti-virus software. Starts out good and bloats out. I remember when McAfee and Norton (or its IBM variant) were good anti-virus applications. Then I went to AVG, used it from six on up, and also got tired of its bloat in 8. When I rebuilt my wife's XP computer I went with Avast! -- the jury is still out on that.
someone suggested Avira Free last time I cleaned my wife's laptop (she got a koobface virus via facebook with about 8 trojan sidekicks and some kinda ddnsfilter too)... seems pretty good, and it found some bits of the koobface I missed when I cleaned it, only annoyance is a once a day or so popup advertisement suggesting you need to buy the full version.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
someone suggested Avira Free last time I cleaned my wife's laptop (she got a koobface virus via facebook with about 8 trojan sidekicks and some kinda ddnsfilter too)... seems pretty good, and it found some bits of the koobface I missed when I cleaned it, only annoyance is a once a day or so popup advertisement suggesting you need to buy the full version.
I'll look into it. Thanks.
At Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:08:38 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux?
if so what are some good ones to use?
There are no 'viruses' (in the MS-Windows sense) for Linux *in the wild*. There are rootkits and from time-to-time exploits in various network services. If you keep things up-to-date and use a properly configured firewall, etc. this is generally not a problem.
If you are running a file or mail server for MS-Windows clients, there are scanners that check for *MS-Windows* viruses.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Eric Clark eric.clark@d-t-s-corp.com wrote:
Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux?
if so what are some good ones to use?
In many companies that have compliance requirements, all servers are required to have antivirus. The argument that "Linux servers don't get viruses" is irrelevant and falls on deaf ears. (And no, you cannot just say, "well the auditors don't know what they are talking about" and consider the case closed).
We are using clam-av with a scheduled nightly scan. Seems to work well enough.
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