Dear Ubuntu Staff Referring to Clam Anti Virus As the old Rolling Stones song goes, “Please allow me to introduce myself...” My name is Roger Louis Gundberg. I have been building computers since 1987, using MS-DOS 3.3 before any GUI interface and before the internet. I have added to my accomplishments a background as a machinist , fourteen years as a silk screener of printed circuit boards and fourteen years as a master Electro-Mechanical Assembler (R&D). I build my own computers. I am currently running a dual boot system WXP Pro (SP2) with COMODO firewall (true vector) and Avast! anti virus. Avast! updates my virus database as the need occurs. It supposes ,as would be appropriate, that I have installed their anti virus program for a reason and that is to protect my computer. I am new to Linux and being from a MS Windows background I expect certain mundane tasks to be performed automatically. I prefer a true vector firewall that has a 'learning mode' included in the software package,but I got what I got with Firestarter. Also an anti virus program that does not assume that I have installed it for the sheer joy of seeing “You must be root” as a challenge to my intellectual curiosity as with Clam Anti Virus. I have initiated auto log-in and the entire system is presumably in my total control (Ha-Ha!) The request for virus database updates is internal, under the Ubuntu shell. Why is there an issue with updating the virus database? Unless there is something inherently unstable with Clam. This is what I meant when I said the anti virus program seems to be protecting me from me. I seem to have no control (a position I despise) and no solution available! I mean it doesn't even ask for an administrative password (okie-doke, now what?). Pardon my simplistic view, but I was under the impression that we rule machines not machines rule us. Whoever wrote this Clam anti virus program is not on our side. (<Too many late night sessions with Coast to Coast AM I'm afraid).)
Your friend, and mine Roger -- Protection at what cost? https://launchpad.net/bugs/89856 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
