[clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

Dennis Peterson dennispe at inetnw.com
Thu Jan 1 09:21:04 UTC 2015


On 12/31/14 11:22 PM, Franklin Wang wrote:
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> I've tried nod32, Dr. Web, AVG, clamav(the only open source one?),
> comodo, F-prot on the desktop(x86_64). Why can't I find reviews for
> them? There're many reviews for Windows platform, but few for Linux
> desktop, not server. Any suggestions? I'm using openSUSE now, with
> rkhunter, AIDE, gpg installed.
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The signatures are what do the work. What OS the tool is compiled for is not so 
important. ClamAV probably is not significantly different on OS X, Windows, 
Linux, or Solaris because the signatures are the same everywhere. The binaries, 
no matter the OS, just run. Rather well, in fact.

dp



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