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Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:13:10 -0500, Mario Thiel wrote:

> Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
> secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...

Really only useful for stopping viruses from being forwarded to your
windows owning clients but f-prot fits the bill.

http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html


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jafar

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:57:21 +0000, jafar wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:13:10 -0500, Mario Thiel wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
>> secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...
>
> Really only useful for stopping viruses from being forwarded to your
> windows owning clients but f-prot fits the bill.
>
> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html


Whole-heartedly second this opinion of F-Prot usage.. however, completely
disagree with it "really only useful for stopping viruses from being
forwarded to your windows owning clients".. F-Prot handles a fair number
of ELF infectors and various other *nix related virus / trojan / worm type
files.



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Ian

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>> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>
Thanks f-prot (free for home use) and jaffa for the tip

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:56:31 +0000, Englander wrote:

>
>>> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>>
> Thanks f-prot (free for home use) and jaffa for the tip

sorry I mean Jafar

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:21:23 +0000, Englander wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:56:31 +0000, Englander wrote:
>
>>
>>>> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>>>
>> Thanks f-prot (free for home use) and jaffa for the tip
>
> sorry I mean Jafar

No Probs
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jafar

Mario Thiel wrote:

> jafar wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:13:10 -0500, Mario Thiel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
>>>secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...
>>
>>Really only useful for stopping viruses from being forwarded to your
>>windows owning clients but f-prot fits the bill.
>>
>>http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>>
>>
>
> Hey man,
>
> can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
> shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
> home/donkey/Documents .

man gzip

man tar

and if they don't turn up anything you'll probably have to hunt them
down and install them... gzip is a compression program, tar is an
archiver, using them together produces a compressed archive (much like
what you'd get with pkzip on a dos machine...

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jafar wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:13:10 -0500, Mario Thiel wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
>> secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...
>
> Really only useful for stopping viruses from being forwarded to your
> windows owning clients but f-prot fits the bill.
>
> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>
>
Hey man,

can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
home/donkey/Documents .

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:29:33 -0500, Mario Thiel <cap-n-pimp@web.de>
wrote:

>> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home...ad_fplinux.html
>
>can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
>shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
>home/donkey/Documents .

Look up the command options in the tar man page. -z will unzip the
file while un-tarring it so you don't need to do two steps to
decompress and then unarchive it.

Change to the directory where the program is installed. Run
"./configure" (that's DOT SLASH Configure) (i.e., run the configure
script in the current directory), then do "make", then "make install".

You might want to examine the configure script to see if there are any
interesting options. Sometimes --help or --options will show them.
There is usually a --prefix=<dirname> to allow installing the app in
the specified directory instead of the default. Unless you know that
will work, let it install where the programmer wanted it.


--
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:29:33 -0500, Mario Thiel <cap-n-pimp@web.de>
wrote:

>can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
>shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
>home/donkey/Documents .

It will be something like this.

gzip -dc fp-linux-ws.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd fp-linux-ws
../configure
make
make install


Jim.