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

[Brandon Lederer]

I integrate SpamAssassin w/ kmail seamlessly, its really very easy.  If 
someone would like to know how..... just send a msg and I'd be glad to tell 
you, or I'm sure google can tell you too.  I've used FPROT for virus stuff on 
linux before.  Personal Edition used to be free.  If you can still get your 
hands on it, upddates are free.


On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:04 am, Noel Leistad wrote:
> 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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