Re: AVG anti-virus
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On 10/18/06 09:05, Grok Mogger wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:21:15AM +0200, steef wrote:
>>> hi list,
>>>
>>> AVG (www.grisoft.com) has a in their opinion 'free'
>>> anti-virusprogram AVG. does debian (i.c. sarge and or etch)
>>> really need such a program? and, what is free? i cannot find
>>> their source-code on their webpage.
>>>
>>> your comments on this topic are highly appreciated,
>>
>> AVG offers a free, limited version of their windows anti-virus
>> program and its actually pretty good (I use it on my wife's win
>> box and I recommend it to my kool-aid drinking friends). It is
>> free, in that you don't have to pay for it. it is not free as
>> we debianistas know free software... do they now have a linux
>> version?
>
> [*snip*]
>
> I looked into this and it turns out that they do have a Linux
> version available. But apparently only as an rpm. Is there any
> way to install an rpm on Debian...?
$ apt-cache show alien
Package: alien
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 464
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 8.64
Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2),
dpkg-dev, make, cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.64_all.deb
Size: 103572
MD5sum: f8105f4f5e2ec4d056370c216044c9e5
SHA1: cc7f861849c090730bd3ff7480bf1a026e338383
SHA256: 00b99a7fb0053148369bea869240ecf6c631cb592f525dce2431bccf92033e4c
Description: install non-native packages with dpkg
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware
Packages
into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
.
It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
.
This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
> I guess a good 2nd question to ask would be, if so, does it seem
> to work well? =P
The bigger question is, "Why do you need A/V on your Linux box?"
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Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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