Re: Antivirus

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Vitorio Okio wrote:
| "Hex1a4" <hex1a4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:20080616175432.7161ba51@xxxxxxxx
|> ClamAV which is in the repositories, or AVG which is at
|> http://free.grisoft.com/.
|>
|> If you go with ClamAV you might also want to install the *clamtk*
|> package which is a ClamAV GUI.
|>
|
| I've tried Clamtk once upon time, found it quite usless and removed.
| As soon you have ClamAV installed it's much easier just to run
| clamscan from console supplying path to directory you want to scan.
|
| $:clamscan ~
| or
| $sudo clamscan /
|
| is really not difficult to remember and to type.

agreed, but, Im going to side with the "no need for antivirus" camp.
Been solely using linux for 7 years, and never had a need for it. Hell,
even with windows, if your intelligent about the way you do things,
theres no need for it there either. Running mixed windows (son-2) and
linux (4-me) in this house





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