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In general Linux has fame for being Virus Free . During the 13 last years as dedicated GNU / Linux user, I've seen Linux servers with binaries infected with Viruses, however the hosts, were severely messed hosts because noone updated them on time and script kiddy crackers has "hacked" multiple times. In lifetime one of my old testing computers got infected with Virus because of my mistake of running "suspicious" pre-compiled "cracker" software binaries with no MD5 verification and "questionable" websites... I share this story because, I want to beat-up the Myth that Linux cannot have Viruses. It CAN but not very likely to happen :)

As a Desktop user over the last 10 years, even though I installed plenty of packages from third party sources and never happened to infect my computer with Virus - or at least if I infected I never knew it. A lot of popular MS-Windows Anti-Virus programs, has already ports for Linux. Just to mention few non- free Linux AV software providing install binaries;

Avast

BitDefender

AVG

Dr. Web

Though risk of Viruses on Linux is so tiny, it is useful to have ANTI-Virus Software to check files

1 / 4 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog received from Skype, E-mails and onse downloaded with Browser. I always prefer so until now I used Clamav Antivirus to keep an eye periodically on my Desktop Linux host and servers running mail servers (those who run Mail Servers know how useful is Clamav in stopping tons of E-mail attached Malware Viruses and Trojans).

I use mostly Linux, so on every new server or Desktop one of first things I did was to install it, i.e.:

# apt-get --yes install clamav ...

Before I knew Clamav AV for Windows has GUI, anyways till recently I didn't know if there is some kind of AV Graphical frontend for Linux. I just found out about ClamTK

ClamTK is available in most Linux distributions from default package repositories

On Debian and to install it run common:

debian:~# apt-get --yes clamtk ...

On Fedora and CentOS Linux to install:

[root@fedora ~]# yum -y install clamtk ...

Its best to run it as root superuser (or via sudo) to make ClamTK able read all files or mounts on system:

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hipo@debian:~$ sudo clamtk

ClamTK is very simple to use and there are only few configuration options;

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ClamTK is very useful when used with mounted Samba Shared (Mapped) Windows drives to scan for Viruses and malware, i.e, after mounting share using cmd like:

# smbmount //192.168.2.28/projects /mnt/projects -o user=USERNAME

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