spyware antivirus for fedora 12

[High_Lander]

I've fedora 11/12 in my desktop in home- some other members in the house also the desktop for various reasons. I noticed that there have been a lot PORNO site visits from the desktop. The computer kinda running slow- Although I tried to scan - avg and f-prot- somehow I don't see theme scanning my pc - so I can't find any kind of spyware or virus- which I think impossible since there have 100 s of visits on those free adult sites and I am sure they would leave some footprints on my machine.

I would suggest anything in detail - I would much appreciate. I know I can reformat the hard disk and reinstall the Linux- a last resort.

[jayd512]

There's most likely no reason to fear an infection, but if you're in doubt about AVG scanning your system, you could also try ClamAV.
You might also think about rkhunter.

Odds are good, though, that all you've got are some cookies that may need cleared from your browser cache.

I would like to add something, though... When in doubt about what others are doing on my machine, they are no longer allowed on my machine. Food for thought?

[MikeTbob]

You can also edit your /etc/hosts file to block the porn websites if you like, Suppose you want to block YouTube and Facebook on Linux. Just add the following two lines in the /etc/hosts file

0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

[nujinini]

Hello!

Hope this would not be considered as cross posting but this might also be of interest to the OP (as well as me ).

Is there another way around? Like instead of adding the bellow in /etc/hosts to block...

0.0.0.0 YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
0.0.0.0 Welcome to Facebook

Can we just add the websites that we allow and find a way to automatically block everything? Thanks

[MikeTbob]

For that, it might be easier to use something like IPtables.

[stuff77]

beware of fraud anti-virus programs such as sercurity tool

[jayd512]

beware of fraud anti-virus programs such as security tool

Site such as these are a joke if you're on a Linux box.
They claim to scan your C: drive and D: drive in search of harmful executable files.
I've hit these pages in accidental redirects while running Linux.
Best laugh of my day, to tell the truth... "You found how many files on my C: drive? I don't even have a C: drive!"


On that note, though... the only point of caution I would advise on these sites is this: Don't hand over your credit card info!

[High_Lander]

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Odds are good, though, that all you've got are some cookies that may need cleared from your browser cache.

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I did have problem in installing rkhunter package- although I was able to download the package with yum -
eg;

[root@localhost nathan]# cd Download
[root@localhost Download]# ls
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm f-prot
avg85flx-r732-a3168.i386.rpm google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm
bbo_setup.exe rkhunter-1.3.6
clam-latest-32.exe rkhunter-1.3.6.tar
fp-Linux-i686-ws.tar.gz
[root@localhost Download]# chown 777 rkhunter-1.3.6
[root@localhost Download]# cd rkhunter-1.3.6
[root@localhost rkhunter-1.3.6]# ls
files installer.sh
[root@localhost rkhunter-1.3.6]# ./installer.sh
Rootkit Hunter installer 1.2.13

Usage: ./installer.sh <parameters>

Ordered valid parameters:
--help (-h) : Show this help.
--examples : Show layout examples.
--layout <value> : Choose installation template.
The templates are:
- default: (FHS compliant; the default)
- /usr
- /usr/local
- oldschool: old version file locations
- custom: supply your own installation directory
- RPM: for building RPM's. Requires $RPM_BUILD_ROOT.
- DEB: for building DEB's. Requires $DEB_BUILD_ROOT.
- TGZ: for building Slackware TGZ's. Requires $TGZ_BUILD_ROOT.
--striproot : Strip path from custom layout (for package maintainers).
--install : Install according to chosen layout.
--overwrite : Overwrite the existing configuration file.
(Default is to create a separate configuration file.)
--show : Show chosen layout.
--remove : Uninstall according to chosen layout.
--version : Show the installer version.

I have tried some other way- I got a note in the web that I need to install hashupd