Virus scanners...

**chris-harry** · 07-10-2005

ok, i need a virus scanner, that detects virus automatically, is free, reliable, and could detect both windows and linux virus'...

Its more of a prevention thing, i hate being blamed for downloading virus... (even thought its not me, its because me family dont know anything about computers), and i dont want to be blamed any more... and thats me life story...

**serz** · 07-10-2005

Hmm... take a look at F-Prot and ClamAV.

**borromini** · 07-10-2005

Won't find much linux viruses though

. But with the 'install applications' functionality of Knoppix, you can install F-prot, update the virus defs, and scan

. And of course, ClamAV is quite handy too.

**psic** · 07-10-2005

ClamAV has a cool on-line virus scanner (you upload a file which you think might be a virus or worm and it scans it). Check it out:
http://test-clamav.power-netz.de/

**chris-harry** · 07-10-2005

thank-you very much people... um, so does this F-Prot thing have prevention type of thing, you know when you accidently get a file full of virus off the net it tell you and gets rid of it the virus thing... i know me thingy words are very techniqual... like norton does?

**cedar** · 07-10-2005

Indeed it does. Read more here

**ordoni** · 07-11-2005

has anyone once got a virus in his linux distro.........very hard to find

**serz** · 07-11-2005

Oh.. another anti-virus for Windows/Linux/UNIX I just discovered by reading a local linux magazine is Antivir.

**psic** · 07-11-2005

Originally Posted by ordoni

has anyone once got a virus in his linux distro.........very hard to find

Nope. But I've only been using it for eight months

**chris-harry** · 07-18-2005

thanks very much people...

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