Linux uncrackable...?

[Doug]

On 09/08/2012 08:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 20:19:42 -0400,
>   "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So how would someone who's still a greenhorn to Linux protect their 
>> machine?...I refuse to install anything that's going to "charge" me 
>> for their product....(call it a glitch in my mental processes, but if 
>> I'm going to use "Free Open Source Software" then it should be 
>> "free"...no?) I cannot get a handle on ClamAV, it's too complicated 
>> for me, but I haven't seen anything that's available for Linux....any 
>> advice?...
I don't see how ClamAV is difficult.  Before you use it, you open a 
terminal, become root user*, and type freshclam.  Then after it 
refreshes its database, you close the terminal, go to the GUI (ClamTK) and
select Scan. If you want to be thorough, then select recursive or home 
recursive and let it go.  Nothing simpler.

*In some distros, type su, return, and put in password, then type 
freshclam. In others, you can just type sudo freshclam, and put in your 
password.

--doug