Firewalls and virus scaners?

[Darryl Moore]

52 Viruses and Malware???!? Damn. you have to be more careful.

If you are careful to only install programs from the distro repositories
then this should not be a viable attack vector for malware.

If you do not have WINE installed, then any email viruses wont be able
to run. I have yet to see an email virus that can run on a linux box
without WINE.

You're right Linux is not bulletproof, but with a bit of care (far less
then what would be needed in windows) you can keep it secure without any
AV programs.

I am curious. Just what AV software have you found that actually
protects against Linux targeted viruses and malware?

cheers,
darryl

Alfred wrote:
> I did a Virus scan one day and there were 52 Things. My computer was
> acting up the way Windows would. So I do them now and then. I bought
> something in Britain via Internet, and there was a virus installed while
> I made the transaction. I down loaded a file Gnome Reset, well two
> downloaded, one was a Phishing Malware. So Yes you need to do these
> things. Linux is not Bullet proof, anymore. I Also had a Keylogger put
> on my Machine, I got rid of that too. It keeps a record of all your
> Keystrokes, and they can get your Passwords from that, Credit Card
> numbers, all sorts of things, so Again Yes!
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> Alfred!
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