Best antivirus for cygwin? - was Norton antivirus and the Trojans
Arturus Magi
sailorleo@isonews2.com
Wed May 4 07:45:00 GMT 2005
bob sandefur wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Apparently Norton antivirus is getting a false positive with rsync and wget.
> I would really like to dump Norton AntiVirus but I have never found any AV
> program to be very satisfactory. I would like the following:
> 1. 64-bit compatible (if the drivers ever show up I will migrate to xp64)
> 2. Relatively cheap for up to 10 machines (every year I buy enough three or
> five packs of Norton for about 10 or 20 bucks with rebates, uninstall the
> old version and run the new version for a year. This is much cheaper than
> upgrading through the Norton web site.).
> 3. Auto updating.
> 4. Cygwin friendly
>
I use AVG myself, but the ultimate option for Cygwin-friendliness is the
port of clamscan already in the 'net Release.
You'll have to set up a cron tab to run freshclam to autoupdate
clamscan, though (someone else will have to advise you on that).
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