Best AntiVirus for Fedora Core 1

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Thu Mar 25 23:33:30 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 17:29 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:21:04 -0800 (PST), "Beri, Rohit" <rberi at surewest.net>
> wrote:
> >I am not sure what is the best (open source/freeware) antivirus for Fedora
> >Core 1.
> >
> 
> I had been using F-Prot for Linux to scan home directories.  I've switched to
> ClamAV (http://clamav.sourceforge.net) to scan home directories (once a week)
> and incoming mail (via clamav-milter) in real-time.  There's an early beta of
> "clamuko" on their site for real-time scanning of specified file systems.
> Haven't tried that yet.  The "freshclam" utility runs from cron to update the
> local virusdef database. They seem very much on top of getting out updates in
> a timely manner.

Do you share those directories with virus-prone systems? Because other
than that... it's really mostly eating cpu...

Rui

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