Open Source and Anti-Virus Don't Mix

This guy needs to do some homework before spouting off that Linux has no AV app choices. No wonder many Linux users think that we should leave Windows to rot in it's own viral sewer. These are three links he needs to check out. A two minute Google...

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117927/2/ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.ht...

And ClamAV: http://www.clamav.net/

Ah, just read the full article. I see he actually mentions ClamAV as being the only open source solution. As far as I know, he's correct, as the others are proprietary. As noted, there are a number of proprietary solutions out there for desktop use.

then he goes on to talk about how there is no other Linux solution ;-)... Didn't say it needed to be open source. Still BS.

The only time I use my QTFprot is when I am serving files from Windows servers and they are windows files/exe's/zip/rar/et al. To be honest, I haven't looked to see what the licensing status of this AV program is, but I know it works well. AVG just released one as mentioned, and one of my friends uses it with satisfaction. Iwould rather use something open source at all times, but like many of us, when I need an application, unless it's coded in the skin of martyred hackers, I make use of it. I get the impression with the creeping of DRM into our world, we are going to see alot of "mixed systems"

and yes, to that private message, I will answer it publicly. Yes. Should I ever have to use a "DVD Jon" type program to circumvent a Trusted Computing Module or DRM, you bet you sweet assets I will. Without hesitiation.

Besides, how many of us can search for and find libdvdcss on our machines...sorry for the aside.

Helios --

Shame on you!

Libdvdcss?

How could you?

Don't you see the immorality of refusing to have your constitutional rights (OK -- it hasn't gone to the Supreme Court and they may well disagree with me on the validity of the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA) circumvented by the hypocritical money-grubbing and freedom-stealing Hollywood crooks and cretins who would subject you to previews that you can't skip and obnoxious menus that take eons to come up and let you get where you actually want to go?

When you put it that way, neither do I.

I have caused the purchase of 4 DVDs in 3 years. I have yet to watch any of them in a crippled, anti-customer DVD player. Those stupid machines usurp our codified fair use rights.

grouch --

They do more than that. The fair use rights codified in the copyright act actually grew from a number of sources, including individual rights protected by the Constitution.

Being codified does not make those rights stronger...codification is, in fact, a rather weak form of protection because Congress is always free to take away what it has given.

Windows was not allowed to connect to the internet.

With over 100 new malicious programs found each and every day, writing and maintaining AV software is counter productive, the correct and open-source way is to fix the vulnerability.

With Microsoft being unwilling or unable to fix the all the vulnerabilities in its OS's, the only logical answer is to keep it off the internet, if you use it at all.

I have to have one copy of Windows running... that is exactly my solution. It never connects to the internet :D.