Sorry to correct my sentences, I shouldn't use guarantee but "best security commitment"

i am a secuity engineer for the govt. and trust me the security demands are higher that almost any other but it is easy to satisfy them with clamAV or other open source applications. Plus if you company is already running norton or symantect the both have enterprise AV clients that come with your enterprise license you just have to download it off there site. And it is part of the enterprise license. The linux consultant should be able to assure them that they can take care of the issue. You should not have to fall back on a vendor when there are so many open-source programs. If if they do need a vendor to fall back to then they should not a linux consultant in the first place. companies switch to linux to save money and i dont think they want someone going well switch to linux but you still have to use the same antivirus for 50K a year. if a company had even a slight thought about switching to linux that means that they have done some research on linux and found that AV is good to have on linux but not really as important on linux as it is on windows.

why linux does not get viruses
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/inde...e=virus#virus2

Hi AceofSpades19. I just read this article you linked, and it does raise some good points. Unfortunately, IMHO, it seems to be almost entirely based on the notion that as long as you don't do stuff as root almost nothing bad can happen to you. As I've stated before, you don't need to be root to install malware. Just as you can install software in your home folder, so can you install malware in it. Articles like this seem to make more sense in the server world, where perhaps the admin doesn't really care what happens inside some user's accounts - the integrity of the system (and hence the entire pool of users) is the priority. But when you are the desktop user, having stuff happen at user-level in your home folder can potentially be much more catastrophic than a root-level compromise, for reasons related to the security of the user himself, and his real-world activities (business, personal life, etc). So basically, IMHO, these articles are a double-edged sword when it comes to educating end-users about information security. Once again, using the root account only for admin purposes is great advice, but it is NOT an excuse to be overconfident or feel invulnerable.

win32sux, That is why you always have a backup, or don't store confidential stuff in your home directory, common sense, which if you don't have when you use linux, you are going to break your system many other ways before you get a virus

This is beside the point (your "why linux does not get viruses" point).

That is true, I just posted that for people to get a better idea of why there is a lack of viruses for linux,

"Trusted" Linux is the answer =)

BTW, the article's author admits that terrible things can happen if you aren't root.

From the article:The "shoot your own foot" analogy is typical of these type of articles. What I find disturbing is how the author manages to brush this aside so easily, as if the only implication of user-level malware is the infection of binaries. Seriously, the possibilities of what malware can do to you at this point is only limited by the developer's creativity and skill.

Hi all,
For microsoft computers, there are lots of good antivirus and antispyware, trojan, rootkit programs. There are even some good free programs. See link for windows boxes: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best..._utilities.htm

However, for Linux, I have no clue.

What are some good av, malware, spyware, rootkit, trojan programs for Linux?

There is chkrootkit, but it seem a bit outdated.

Any suggestions?

No need for av, antispyware apps. rkhunter and chkrootkit both work well. You might want to take a look at a couple of the sticky threads in the security forum.

Currently, just for good measure, I have chkrootkit and rkhunter both run by cron atleast once daily on my Linux desktop machine, even though the likelihood that either will ever find anything are minute..
back in the Windows days, my favourite anti-virus, and IMHO among the *best* antivirus makers was Kaspersky Labs. I made use of both their Antivirus Suite, as well as their Anti-Hacker port blocker, and to date can only say very good things about their software. It is in a word, "impressive".

Where's this leading? Well, I one day came across a linux daemon of some sort, somewhere, for download. I don't know it's purpose, but common sense tells me it was/is some sort of 'protection' mechanism that Kaspersky implemented for Linux machines.

I'd be curious to know whether Kaspersky currently offers Linux AV/Anti-hacker software, and what it does, and how well it does it, and without even having seen it or used it, I would recommend it to someone seeking such software, solely based on my lengthy experience with their Windows software. If you happen to look into this, do tell

hi
i only know of one of the top of my head and thats panda anti virus which is freeware

http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp

i dont know if its any good but its worth a try

"Whatcha doing?"
"Keeping the elephants away."
"What the heck are you talking about? There aren't any elephants within 1000 miles of here!"
"I'm doing a pretty good job, dontcha think?"

From my experience with that crap, STAY FAR AWAY from Panda, unless you feel like formatting your hard disk to get rid of it.