On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:06, Sthu Deus <sthu.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day. > > I have 3 questions on virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique. > > 1. Which software (may that is even packaged for Debian) is the best at > Your opinion and why for virus/spy-ware (the software that scans for > interesting data and sends it to some host) detection? >
chkrootkit > 2. What's the technique of scanning for the malicious software? - As I > can understand it should be absolutely trustworthy and at the same time > - up-to-date (the bases it uses) - so, should I have a separate HDD for > the goal that stands most the time separately (on a shelf), updating > alone in computer, then again removed and being used only as a > primary disk for scanning attached disks - as the secondary? Or there > is more easy to perform way of accomplishing this? > man chkrootkit > 3. Is it possible to scan for this very purposes (virus & spy-ware) the > distro CD/DVD -s - as it is from the media, without explicit manual > unpacking - to be sure the software is OK (in case when check sums are > not available OR it is impossible for some reasons to re-download the > images)? > man md5sum -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin643bgl1gnt8bq42tlpcgtnopo38ikua-og...@mail.gmail.com
