Antivirus for Fedora 14

[Rick Sewill]

On Friday, May 20, 2011 12:29:23 PM John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri May 20 2011, Andrew Jamison wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You can already by commercial antivirus for Linux. Kaspersky offers a Linux
> version, as does AVG and Symantec. How well those work is anyone's guess. I
> don't have any info on whether or how well they work, simply advising that
> they already exist.
> 
> Now, I agree that it's not too far-fetched to expect to see a linux virus
> "in the wild." Apple is now reportedly advising users to get some sort of
> antivirus for the Mac, and since Apple's O/S is based on BSD, it doesn't
> seem like a huge stretch to imagine that a Linux virus could be developed.
> 
> I would like to see more "workstation" antiviruses be developed for linux.
> Most of the antivirus products I've seen for linux have been for servers.

There have been Linux viruses in the past.

Please see URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware