On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:44 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Yes, I am aware of it, but again I cannot prevent the messages being > sent. It's not your computer? > Since you do not believe AVG is a good product, do you have any > suggestion as to what is a great free product for all platforms? I am > using an M$ platform as well as many un*x variants (Solaris, Linux, > and others)? I would LOVE to learn of other products especially that > of network based A-V/S products, free, of course. I am but poor and > cannot afford the fee nor subscriptions. I think ClamAV is the name of one of the more respected ones, that is cross-platform. Change the subject line to anti-virus software for Linux and Windows, and you'll probably raise the attention of someone doing it. I haven't really looked hard at Linux anti-virus solutions, because I think it's a waste of effort. I'd really have to go out of my way to infect myself on Linux. Windows, on the other hand, isn't so safe, it's all too easily to catch something, even without doing something silly. But I don't use it anymore, so I haven't kept up to date with the offerings for it. But, when I did look around in the past, I noticed that AVG rated poorer than others at catching what's out there in the wild, and I don't think you could call anything 100% effective. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
