Linux-and-Virus Programs?

[Alex Snow]

Yeah I'll take a look at it.
I really need virus protection for mail on the winblows boxes. I'm 
sick of hearing "my computer has a virus. waaaaaaaa!"
On Sun, Nov 16, 
2003 at 08:55:33AM +1100, Dj Statik wrote:
> Yeah, clamav seems to pick up most of the popular windows viruses.
> 
> Am currently using amavisd-new in combination with clamav for virus
> filtering and spamassassin for spam filtering.
> 
> If you haven't checked it out yet, ask freshmeat about amavisd-new, it's
> deffinatly worth a look.
> 
> Later
> 
> >From Mitchell
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: <Kwatson at smed.yi.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Linux-and-Virus Programs?
> 
> 
> > I was thinking of installing clam antivirus on my box to run it kind
> > of like an smtp proxy for my winblows users. anyone used this program
> > before?
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Keith Watson wrote:
> > > Whoa Nellie! Bad advice. But I can see where the linux thought
> > > process came in. It don't matter what user you run an executable
> > > from under winblows, if it has a virus the whole system gets
> > > infected. My philosophy is thus, delete all unknown files from
> > > unknown sources. Better to be safe than sorry.
> > >
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > On 05:47 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > Why not just create a temp user and make that user the owner of this
> > > > file? Log in as that user and try to unzip the .exe. Maybe it's
> > > > something you want, and maybe it's junk. But you certainly won't trash
> > > > any system files this way.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hart Larry writes:
> > > > > From: Hart Larry <chime at cts.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi All:  Some of my linux experts have told me I don't need to have
> any
> > > > > anti-virus programs.
> > > > > Reason I am asking is that I am sharing files on Mutella in Linux.
> While I was
> > > > > looking for Christmas dance music, I ended up with a file, which is
> an
> > > > > executeable.  I don't know its content, but I hope its music.  I
> would feel
> > > > > much better if I could scan it while in Linux before I run it from
> Jaws in
> > > > > win98.
> > > > > Are their any suggestions or speech friendly Linux virus programs I
> can run
> > > > > with speakup?
> > > > > Much earlier this year I had alot of trouble with backdoor viruses
> in windows.
> > > > > Thanks so much in advance
> > > > > Hart
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > > Janina Sajka
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> > > > Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > > >
> > > > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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> > > Keith Watson
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> > >
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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?