[olug] Ati-Virus/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spyware for Linux?

[Noel Leistad]

well,

clam works well for me/us as a virus scanner on our email servers.
www.clamav.net  Open source project.
spamassassin or possibly Mail::SpamAssassin installed via CPAN can do the
Spam stuff, www.spamassassin.org

Spy-ware on Linux, call me naive, but check out AdamH's presentation RE
firewall from Dec 2004. Should cover most of your issues w/ spyware.
www.olug.org then click on Presentations.

Very possibly need to integrate both clam and SA w/ fetchmail. I'm not good
w/ that, but many here are... ;-)



Noel Leistad
noel at metc.net
noel at noelleistad.com


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
A-Wal
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:46 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: [olug] Ati-Virus/Anti-Spam/Anti-Spyware for Linux?


Hello guys,

    This will be my first post on this list, so if my question has
already been answered then sorry.

    Ok, what I would like to have is a way to check for viruses, spam
and spyware as a regular user on a linux machine.  When I install either
Suse or Fedora, I notice that it installs a couple programs that work at
a server level, or at least that's what I think they're for.  I'm not
running a mail server.  All I do is pull my email off of Cox and read
it, or surf the web.  I tried doing a search for something like this,
but I couldn't find anything I felt secure in just downloading.  What
I'm looking for is something that functions like Norton AVG, checking
each email as I get them, and in general, making sure I don't get
anything I don't want.  I would also like to be able to scan the whole
system as SU to make sure nothing got past my user account.  It would be
nice if it was free and open source, but it's more important that it be
updated regularly for new viruses and stuff.  As things stand, I have no
idea what software to use or trust, which makes it hard.

 Any comments would be welcome.
Thanks!

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