[Glastonbury] AntiVirus

[Martin WHEELER]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, nick irwin wrote:

> Can I just ask what Anti virus software the community recommends? I am a poor
> student and would like to avoid paying

     apt-get install chkrootkit

is your (debian) friend.

The *free* edition of AlarmZone is better than nothing under Windows.
(but then you've already got PC-Cillin.)


> I am finally deciding that Virii need to be taken seriously in Linux too (The
> blissful ignorance must end at some point)

chkrootkit will check for t0rn, lion, etc.

HTH
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