Re: Antivirus in Debian?
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:10:47AM -0300, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote:
> I'm running Woody in my home computer, and i was wondering if it is a good
> idea to install an antivirus, if it is...what should i use? should i use it
> to scan mails and files? can someone give me some hints?
In unix, it's more trouble than it's worth. Windows viruses cannot
run in Linux. I would recommend getting chkrootkit and logcheck to
help make sure nobody managed installed malicous code and to email you
about possible crack attempts against your system (don't freak out
unless logcheck sends you an Attack Alert). Keep yourself patched (if
you use stable, go hit http://security.debian.org/ for details and
what to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list if it's not already there,
if you run testing or unstable, do a dist-upgrade regularly).
- --
.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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