[gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Boot
Robert Persson wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert My fave would ClamAV, which I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Robert Persson wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert I use f-prot. www.f-prot.com . It works

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:38 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. Many thanks Robert --

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:38, Robert Persson wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation as to which anti-virus program in portage would be best for occasional on-demand scanning? The main use would be to screen windows programs before installing them in wine. I suspect you've entered the

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 09:49 am John Jolet was like: I suspect you've entered the realm of religious viewpoints. Thank you to everyone who replied. I myself had a decent experience with AVG when I was running windows, so I am sure both it and clamav are up to the job. What tips the balance is

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good on-demand anti-virus program?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Persson
On November 2, 2005 10:49 am Robert Persson was like: Clamav it is then. Just installed clamav and the klamav front end. Utterly painless and easy to set up for a single-user desktop system like mine. -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force