AntiVirus pages?

[Tom Davies]

Hi again :)
Something i have wanted to do for ages but it's very low priority is to gather 
some info together about antivirus.  There is a fair bit of useful stuff 
scattered around on blogs and stuff that could vanish without warning.  Getting 
some of it onto Ubuntu wiki-pages or even better, a more general wikipedia page 
(that could be accessed by people using all sorts of different distros) might 
keep it safer.  


It's fairly rare to find an antivirus that still works in linux.  ClamAv is the 
only OpenSource one but it would be good to have choices.  There are some 
proprietary ones.  


Avast is not OpenSource but at least it still works and UbuntuGeek has a nice 
blog about getting it to work.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/avast-antivirus-for-ubuntu-desktop.html
I think copying the info from there to the wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!
or perhaps create a sub-page for Gnu&Linux?  Can wikipedia have sub-pages such 
as 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!/Linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!/Windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!/Bsd
If so then could we do the linux one to keep the install instructions available 
without cluttering the main Avast page there?  Wikipedia pages don't normally 
have comments written at the bottom so a link to the UbuntuGeek page would be 
good so that people can comment there, and so that UbuntuGeek still gets hits.  
I've subscribed to that page to try to help people that need help but i don't 
know enough to really help there.  I've used the comments section to give links 
to better forums.  


The "Community Documentation" for Ubuntu is probably the easiest place for 
people to start editing documentation and the mark-up language is very similar 
to normal wikipedia-mark-up.  The Antivirus page is ... 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus
and it's fairly easy to create a sub-page such as 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus/Avast
just by adding the /Avast to the end and then click on "Create new empty page" 
after checking that there isn't already something close enough in the right-hand 
column.  If there is something already then just edit that rather than create a 
new page.  


Community Documentation already has pages for AVG and for Panda although i think 
Panda no longer works and i seem to remember the AVG one being difficult to find 
a download page for (or was that Avira?).  


Since UbuntuGeek is obviously very specific to Ubuntu's Gnome DE it might well 
be exactly rigth for all other distros using Gnome but maybe not for KDE nor 
Unity.  Many other distros offer a version using Gnome in a similar way to 
Ubuntu offering Kubuntu, Xubuntu and unofficially (still?) Lubuntu.  That is why 
i think it would be better to have a sub-page at wikipedia rather than in 
Ubuntu's Community Documentation.  


The Community Documentation page at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus
is very messy as i just used it to dump a lot of ideas that i had gathered over 
the years and some backlash about the types of stupid FUD that appears from 
people that are paid to know better.  Security consultants that get more per 
hour than i get in a week yet blatantly know even less than me and blatantly 
spout out BS.  So some of that page was written in anger and the page needs a 
bit of tidy-up.  


Ok, so there is a lot of mess about antivirus in gnu&linux and not much need to 
put any of it right since Gnu&Linux is fairly immune to Viruses (virii?) and 
other malware.  The main use of an antivirus in gnu&linux is to scan Windows 
partitions and perhaps scan Windows machines over a network.  NOT a high 
priority! lol

Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Amit Barnwal <barnwal.usa at gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 11:25:03
Subject: Hi friends!!

Hi there!
My name is Amit Barnwal. I have been a regular user of Linux. I plan to 
contribute to the documentation efforts regularly! 
I am an average experienced Linux user studying engineering. I have been an 
editor of Wikipedia for many years. This being a collaborative effort among 
like-minded people; I would request the admins and mentor to help me be able to 
contribute and learn about how can I be a member of your team. If you may please 
assign some bitesize bugs for me to fix, I would be highly appreciative.
Also if anyone can mentor me, I am all eager and obliged to learn the trade 
secrets :))

Best wishes for the documentation. Lets make Ubuntu most welcoming to naive and 
oldies alike!

Amit
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/attachments/20110619/e64f7a6b/attachment.html>