Best antivirus for Ubuntu 14.04?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:38:55 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Hello
> I think I have malware affecting my mail servers.

Do you think you have rooted?  Or do you think you have MS-Winodws malware 
lurking in your mail spool?

> What is the most effective antivirus for Ubuntu 14.04 linux?

You probably want to first get chkrootkit and use that program to check to see 
if you server(s) have been rooted -- this program checks to see if various 
system programs have been altered and whether or not there are 'extra' 
processes or daemons running, etc.

If this was a RedHat flavored system, I'd also suggest using the 'rpm -Va' 
command to check for alterations of installed software -- is there something 
like this with apt-get or dpkg (verifying installed software files against 
expected sizes or stored checksums)?

There is something call clamav, which along with mimedefang can be included 
with your mail processing to check for malware attached to e-mail messages, 
but this is mostly checking for MS-Winodws malware, not Linux malware (I am 
not sure if there is any such thing out in the wild -- rootkits are a 
*different* story)

> Thanks
> Donald Parsons
> dnldprsns at gmail.com
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