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Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?



On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:25 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de> writes:
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> >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree.  Check out clamav
> >> instead.  http://www.clamav.net/
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> > Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus
> > database is not maintained by an commercial entity working 24/7 on it.
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> You of all people, being a Debian user, should know that having no
> commercial backing is far from an impediment.

But it sure is useful to be able to have people on duty 24x365, 
to update virus-signature files in hours, rather than days.

(Of course, since I use unix, viruses are just about the least of
my worries.)

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