Question About Security Software for Ubuntu

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:18:17AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
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> Hi,
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> What about ClamAv?  It is command line based so should be totally  
> accessible and is well supported.  

I use clamav for virus protection and spamassassin for spam filtering.
Both are very accessible, are automatically updated on a regular basis,
and come in Debian packages. In addition, spamassassin can be
configured stochastically, i.e. so it learns as it goes, if you want to
take the trouble to tell it about false positives and false negatives.
My email services have their own filters, but mine still catch things
from time to time. I have not played with the stochastic configuration,
but it's there if one wants to.

But Linux security is more than just virus and spam. It would pay to
dig into the subject a bit. A good firewall is a start, and running
only essential services and daemons. 

Chuck


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