I just bought a nice new laptop around a month ago and I don't have an anti virus program. For around a week, when I open a site from a link in my e-mail, ajarn for example, I would see 2 green bars, then they would stop and I get a whole bunch of boxes flashing on the screen. I need to hit Ctrl Alt Del many times to clear this off.
A guy that I work with suggested Avest anti virus, so last night I downloaded it, or so I though, but in had only given me the options of Open, Save or Cancel. They gave me a license number, but I couldn't download the anti virus. I went to their site at work, and it gave me the option to Run. I tried again at home, and I didn't get the Run option.
I've checked on the net for other ones and there seems to be a few. Grisoft, like Avest gives you the choice of Windows or Linux operating system. Here's where I'm a bit unsure. I have an Acer Aspire laptop with a Linpus Linux BE system. What anti virus can you suggest for me?
Thanks for sitting there reading my whole saga and I appreciate any help I can get. Please note that I'm a quasi dummy when it comes to the techie stuff like this.
Your on Linux and you need an anti-virus program, is that what your saying ma'm?
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Yes, Citan. Which anti virus is the best for me and user friendly? An, what about a firewall?
"I have an Acer Aspire laptop with a Linpus Linux BE system."
Very nice! Wish I could help.
I'm asking an honest question, why can't I get a sincere answer? I don't think I'm the first person to ask for help regarding an anti virus program.
It's the Linux, dear. Not many of us know much about it.
i use avast, and it's good, but i'm desk top windowsXL.
i also have a dormant AVG programme which i activate, update and run from time to time, (after deactivating avast. i never run them together) just in case avast missed something.
don't know if you can do this with linux.
Yes, good idea. I got two or three of everything to do with virus, ad ware and registry scan.
Thanks, guys. I'll work on it this weekend. :twogirls:
Your running linpus, which is a Taiwanese distro, for your anti-virus program download clamav, you can run it from a terminal,Using the command (clamscan) ..... if you want to scan a directory just enter, example..... /clamscan home/dave/wallpaper/
bingo i've just scanned the wallpaper folder in my home directory. If you want to update clamav, you simply open a terminal window and log in as a root user and type (freshclam) sit back and wait for it to update!
If you require a gui for clam you can download klamav, clamtk, or avscan. Very good gui's. But dare I say......... i'ts very hard to get a Linux virus, you'd have to be very unlucky indeed! Even then it couldn't install itself unless you gave it root permisions, Unlike windows one click and your dead!
You also mentioned a firewall, doesn't linpus supply a default firewall? if not you could try lokkit or guarddog.
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One last thing, before you go out and download these programs you could check first to see if you can download them from your distros apt or yum software repositories.
I'm not sure if linpus uses apt or yum for updates, but anyway here we go...........
Open a terminal log in as a root user...... type apt-get install clamav,
If it's not an apt system then you could try....... yum install clamav.
Good luck.
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Bloody Hell! It can't be that difficult!
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On my linux box, I don't even have an anti-virus program. Linuxes are Macs, they just don't get viruses.
I just finished doing that and I got great results!!!!! Thanks, DaveYour running linpus, which is a Taiwanese distro, for your anti-virus program download clamav, you can run it from a terminal,Using the command (clamscan) ..... if you want to scan a directory just enter, example..... /clamscan home/dave/wallpaper/
bingo i've just scanned the wallpaper folder in my home directory. If you want to update clamav, you simply open a terminal window and log in as a root user and type (freshclam) sit back and wait for it to update!
If you require a gui for clam you can download klamav, clamtk, or avscan. Very good gui's. But dare I say......... i'ts very hard to get a Linux virus, you'd have to be very unlucky indeed! Even then it couldn't install itself unless you gave it root permisions, Unlike windows one click and your dead!
You also mentioned a firewall, doesn't linpus supply a default firewall? if not you could try lokkit or guarddog.
Posted after 10 minutes 40 seconds:
One last thing, before you go out and download these programs you could check first to see if you can download them from your distros apt or yum software repositories.
I'm not sure if linpus uses apt or yum for updates, but anyway here we go...........
Open a terminal log in as a root user...... type apt-get install clamav,
If it's not an apt system then you could try....... yum install clamav.
Good luck.
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