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ClamAV – The free Anti Virus solution for Windows on Linux

There is a common perception that there are no viruses on the Linux platform – which to a large extent is true. But what happens when you get a mail attachment which you would like to forward to your windows machine so you can open it with your favorite proprietary software? And what if this attachment is infected by a virus? This is where the anti virus solutions for linux comes into the picture.

ClamAV
is a free GPLed anti-virus solution which provides a lot of advantages when installed in Linux. Sticking to the philosophy of linux, it contains a set of command line tools which can be used to check if a file on your system is infected by a virus.

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November 17, 2005 on 5:41 am | In Anti Virus Software, Free Software, Linux | 1 Comment |


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    Comment by k — February 16, 2009 #

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