• avast! For Linux? Wut.
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So. Apperantly Linux users are in such danger of being attacked, they need need antivirus. [url]http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition[/url] Check that out. Cause... Why?
Well, they must be predicting that the virus share of Linux gets increased soon.
But that's a very small chance. I guess, better safe then sorry.
$5 says it only scans for Windows viruses to keep them from spreading across your network.
hehe, linux viruses.
Late OP is late.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;25572148]$5 says it only scans for Windows viruses to keep them from spreading across your network.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much the only reason I'd want an AV on Linux anyway. Sometimes I'll download stuff to my Linux box and move it over to one running Windows; it's useful being able to just scan everything while it's on Linux so that it poses no threat.
CLOCKS. :rolleyes: I've been using Avast in both Linux and Windows for months. Great stuff. :cheers:
Obligatory xkcd comic [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linux_user_at_best_buy.png[/img]
[QUOTE=joemomma53;25573620]Obligatory xkcd comic [img_thumb]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linux_user_at_best_buy.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Even if you use Linux you could get AV if you dualboot with Windows. Just to protect it. Other than that. Win.
clamav > this shit
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;25583373]clamav > this shit[/QUOTE] ClamAV is the best AV scanner for Linux :smile:
[QUOTE=Amic;25573656]Even if you use Linux you could get AV if you dualboot with Windows. Just to protect it. Other than that. Win.[/QUOTE] What if you don't own Windows? :downs:
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;25584527]What if you don't own Windows? :downs:[/QUOTE] Then you could scan any pendrive that was on Windows for virus. Other than that. Its useless. :downs:
Why would I do that? I don't care if somebody else's USB stick is infected.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;25590571]Why would I do that? I don't care if somebody else's USB stick is infected.[/QUOTE] You're mean.
I can imagine it being useful if you wanted some sort of interim PC. For example if you were in an office with sensitive data, you could scan all inbound data (on any physical storage device) on this machine first without any risk to your workstations, sort of like x-raying hand luggage before getting on a plane, This is obviously only useful in an office enviroment, upon which you have to buy a license, so maybe the free version was just an afterthought. Kudos them for giving it out for a useless purpose as opposed to just arbitrarily holding it back [b] because they can.[/b]
Yeah, that's what the purpose of ClamAV was. You could set up an email server on Linux and have ClamAV scan through all the email before it got sent off to someone in the office.
Yeah, they probably saw what ClamAV did and decided they wanted to create a competitor program. I'm guessing it'll mostly be "enterprise software" and used by big corporations who want an expensive mailscanner as opposed to the perfectly good free alternative. You never know though, they might expand to doing neat security-based stuff... like detecting what ports need to be open, which ones could be exploited, implement some protection to DOS attacks and stuff... It'd be real helpful to have a GUI program that does all the stuff ClamAV/MailScanner/various anti-DOS scripts do. Plus, viruses may not be able to SPREAD on linux (at least not for very long since things get patched on a daily basis), but you can still design MALICIOUS software... closed-sourced binaries like Skype could have some malicious code injected into them, and even if it can only modify files owned by the user it's running as, it could still do something equivalent to `rm -rf /home/$USER` :v: so it'd be helpful to have some user-friendly antivirus thing that hooks into ldlinux/preload and heuristically scans a program for malicious code patterns before it runs.
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