[ale] Linux antivirus scanners

[Jim Kinney]

virus scanning on Linux is only useful if the Linux system is serving files
to windows machines. Then it's clamav. F-Prot also has a Linux-based AV
tool. It also scans for Windows virus signatures. There are just not enough
Linux virus's, and they all require really stupid practices to get, so I
don't worry about it at home.

Oh. Don't run wine. That _will_ capture windows virus's.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> What are all of you in list-land using for a virus scanner on Linux
> (whether it's scanning the local system or the remote system)?
>
> I'm using ClamAV now but I thought I'd get opinions on other possible
> options.  My intent is to perform centralized scanning of most of my
> machines (mix of OSes).
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