[Gllug] Spanish company Panda releases free antivirus for Linux

[Graeme Walker]

There is an English site, http://www.pandasoftware.com/com/linux/linux.asp
What really gets to me, is how to update the virus def. database. You need a
username and password.
If you go to the main site (www.pandasoftware.com) and click on the update
link, it prompts you for username/password, and then says it is only for
registered/payed users. Freeware users don't get updates. So it makes it
pretty useless if you can't update. The standard package comes with files
from Nov 2000 which is pretty old, esp. things like Magister and Sircam
wouldn't be detected!

As for the email scanning, I use Inflex (www.pldaniels.com/inflex) which is
GPL, he has a payed version which has more features, etc. I suppose a little
modifiying the code could get Inflex to work with Panda AV, the biggest
process would working out the return codes from the app.

Graeme
----- Original Message -----
From: "Formi" <rcarrera at formi.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Spanish company Panda releases free antivirus for Linux


> On 25 Aug 2001, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>
>
>  Jon, just to point out, there´s a part I didn´t translate but its in
>  the attachment, it says that  protects against Ramen and Lion, ie.
>
>  If there is really a need to do so, don´t ask me.
>
>  The file is an rpm, I think it was about 1.8 MEG. I might suggest
>  somebody really checks the license, its shown just before you download.
>
>  Free, is a word that can be interpreted in many ways, even worse by
>  marketing drones.
>
>
>   Formi.
>
>
> > On 25 Aug 2001 15:19:08 +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> >
> > > That's really great. Has anyone *ever* had a problem with viruses on
> > > UNIX while being vaguely clueful, though?
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > It's mostly for Windows lusers who have their mail scanned on UNIX
> > mailservers/fileservers though :)
> >
> > --jcm
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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