Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:25 -0500, Tony Caudel wrote: > On the other hand, plenty of us then forward this mail to our > windoze-using friends who would be very unhappy if we infected them. Then let them get the anti-virus software. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Tony Caudel
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, how many Linux viruses exist out there? Usually these Linux based anti > virus progs only make sense on mail servers that receive mail for Windows > users. > > Or am I completely wrong here? On the other hand, plen

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 09 May 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: > > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering > > if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates > > well with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappoint

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 May 2008 13:42:28 +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > This is a good article about antivirus solutions. You can use ClamAV > along with Sylpheed(Claws) because it has integration for it. Which? Sylpheed or Claws? They are now separate programs. Claws Mail no longer has a clamav plugin becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Freitag, 9. Mai 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: > > > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering > > > if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 9. Mai 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: > > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if > > there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well > > with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappoi

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if > there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well > with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappointment with clamav. Not > necessarily clamav's fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-09 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
If you want open source antivirus, you can only use ClamAV. Anyway there are a number of free or commercial antivirus solutions for Linux. (I don't know if any of these supports Thunderbird). http://www.linux.com/articles/22899 This is a good article about antivirus solutions. You can use ClamAV

[gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

2008-05-08 Thread Tony Caudel
I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappointment with clamav. Not necessarily clamav's fault since T/B maintains its emails in one long file. Tony --