Antivirus for Fedora 14

[Andrew Jamison]

I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may work
for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to far-fetched to
say it could happen) then you may see commercial programmers offering Linux
versions of their clients.

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:37 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Antivirus for Fedora 14

I've just been considering one of the security flaws that Windows has, and
wondering how Linux contends with the same issue:  On Windows, it was always
a problem that you might install something (intentionally or
not) that would replace a system file that it shouldn't be able to.

On Linux, if you were to try and install a file that wanted to replace some
system file, or some file belonging to another package that may be just as
important, can you *expect* the install process to remove the original owner
package?  Or is it possible to stuff up some file belonging to another
package, silently?

e.g. If I was to install silly-game.rpm and I saw comments about removing
kernel(something) in the list of things to do during the intall, I'd abort.

(Not that that'd help those who routinely do "yum -y install" without due
care.)

I think the case that installing a package that generates a file during
installation, can leave a file that's not owned by the package (as far as
YUM and RPM databases are concerned).

--
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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