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Relatively few people have heard of them, but it is by far the best antivirus software I've ever used (and most reviews agree).

Uses even fewer resources than AVG (they claim to work with Pentium Is, but I've never used with anything lower than a 500 MHz P3), and far better at actually stopping viruses.

Their info can be found here: http://www.kaspersky.com/kav6

Kaspersky has good multi-year and multi-PC discounts, and central-administration options. It also does a MUCH better job than Norton or (God-forbid) McAfee do.

Hit their website and you can even get a 1-month demo from them to see if it'll work for you.

Kaspersky has good multi-year and multi-PC discounts, and central-administration options. It also does a MUCH better job than Norton or (God-forbid) McAfee do.

Hit their website and you can even get a 1-month demo from them to see if it'll work for you.

I have read this today and was about to post to Mac usenet groups, decided to post /. instead.

It is a very interesting article about the real problems of anti virus companies (yes, no mac viruses mentioned) by Mr. Kaspersky himself. It also includes the problems antiviruses have including their products.

http://www.kaspersky.com/eugenearticle

As a guy gave up running win32 for 3 years, I still check their site/blog as well as F-Secure one.

As a side note (hopefully not needed)
KASPERSKY DOES NOT PRODUCE MAC PRODUCTS. No FUD there.

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I look at Kapersky and all Linux ones have the same information: NONE.

So how real is this? Will it be used mainly for FUD?

http://www.kaspersky.com/ Not only does it have a small footprint in memory, it's been very effective for me. The Malware dictionary is also an interesting read. [I'm not paid for this endorsement.]

http://www.kaspersky.com/ A lean, strong application with a web-based encyclopedia of malware defintions and nightly definition updates. And no, I'm not getting kickbacks for this.

Hello,

A bit of searching came up with the following free or trial versions of anti-virus programs which are capable of detecting and removing Win32/MyWife (née CME-24):

Alwil - Avast! 4 Home Edition (free for personal non-commercial use)
ESET - NOD32 trial version (30-day evaluation)
Grisoft - AVG Free Edition (free for personal non-commercial use)
Kaspersky Lab - Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (30-day evaluation)
McAfee - VirusScan (30-day evaluation)
Microsoft - Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) (free)
Panda - Titanium Antivirus 2006 (30-day evaluation)
Sophos - Anti-Virus (30-day evaluation)
Symantec - W32.Blackmal@mm Removal Tool (free)
Trend Micro - PC-cillin Trial Version (30-day evaluation)

I'm certain other readers will look up and post links to additional vendors, too. Ob-disclaimer: I happen to work for one of the companies listed above, so there.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Besides Spybot and Adaware, I use the following programs:
SpywareBlaster - Prevents Spyware from being installed
Microsoft AntiSpyware - Completly free, and has nice active protection. Have a 'special' versions of Windows, use an alternate download source.

With respect to Viruses, please read the following article: Mega Antivirus Test.
Summed up: AVG sucks, Anti-Vir finds the most virus, Kaspersky 5 finds most unique stuff, and Kaspersky's online scan owns everything.

Also I'd recommend using a NAT. All of this is prevention/reactive stuff, though I think the Hijack This + Google is the best for nasty stuff, as mentioned.

I assume like most academic institutions they run windows on all of the box's that are not servers at least. On the they apparently need internet access note, I reccommend a solution from Kaspersky Labs http://www.kaspersky.com/ called Kaspersky Anti-Hacker, its a great firewall out of the box, and they have corperate licenseing and other things which you would need. Its also great for the home user. ..Or any NAT should really stop the pcs from becomeing infected..

On the you dont really need internet to use painting programs note... I suggest wirecutters.. The Ultimate Windows Internet Security Solution.

Kaspersky Lab has actually hired *nix RAV developers and helped existing RAV users with migration. Good things deserve to be kept and developed further.

Kaspersky Lab has actually hired *nix RAV developers and helped existing RAV users with migration. Good things deserve to be kept and developed further.

http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads

fucking liars

Kaspersky are fucking liars

kaspersky are fucking liars

kaspersky labs are fucking liars

kaspersky are fucking liars

Kaspersky are fucking liars

props to GNAA

Even know someone that programmed a test virus long time ago, and sent to antivirus publishers to see how well it could be detected, and the response from the community of that time, specially the people from Kaspersky, was very against that kind of "tests", so is very improbable what you are telling there (and that includes too most of the other biggest players 10 years ago if the same is said about i.e. F-Prot or McAfee people)

At least without hard proof (not just speculation or just urban myths) i would give that notice the same weight as that Bill Gates is sending big bucks to any that continues a chain letter.

As presented in an August 25 article on SlashDot http://www.kaspersky.com/ has claimed that there will be a large scale cyber terrorism attack. The evidence presented seemed to be rather promising, showing significant signs of a possible attack. Reporters then learned that Kaspersky was Russian, therein discrediting the story.

[ GNAA ]

After a quick scan of some posts, here are a few programs others have recommended:

avast! 4 for Linux Currently in beta so I have no idea what the cost will be. Windows versions are $399 US for a single server.

Clam AV A GPL'd virus scanner. Looks like pretty good AV software for open-source. Definitions are updated many times a week through submissions from the community. I think I'm going to have to check this one out myself as it looks promising.

F-Prot Anti-Virus for Linux Pricing is based on number of users; $299 for 1-24, $399 25-49, $499 50-99.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Pricing is per-user. $10.05/user for 100 users. Unfortunately, they don't have a direct page for the Linux mail server software. I had to go to the online store for pricing.

If anybody knows more, post them here.

I've been using both the desktop version of RAV Anti-Virus as well as the sendmail version. Both were really great products for great prices. Needless to say, I was *extremely* disappointed when Micro$oft acquired RAV's intellectual property.

Worst part is they basically left their customers high and dry. Sure, they are honoring the remaining life of their update licenses, but now I'm forced to find a replacement. Kaspersky Labs, who then acquired the RAV coding team is offering a 50% discount to former RAV users, but their mail server anti-virus software doesn't work the same way RAV did. It works on a per seat basis (basically only licensed to specific names to the left of the '@') whereas RAV licensed on per-domain name basis.
Kaspersky does have an excellent track record for catching the latest virii before any of the other big commercial virus scanners though.

If anybody knows of a better replacement than Kaspersky, I'd like to hear about it.

The B variant targets both Microsoft and SCO.

ClamAV and Kaspersky both seem to be catching them here.

Just a note: Linux/unix developers of RAV are now working for Kaspersky Lab.

Here's a preview in Linux antivirus in action. Pretty spiffy and well-made, I'd say.

Why do you think one of the main anti virus companies is Russian?

A number of viruses disguise themselves as resumes. Does this law also force companies to keep those? Do companies still have the right to disinfect these mails?

I would love to abandon Windows 98 and go to Linux. I can't yet for the following reasons:

• Microsoft Word 2000. Open Office is nice but doesn't measure up yet. If I could get Word running in WINE, that would be good enough.
• InfoSelect, a proprietary software product from Micro Logic This is an amazing product that I'm simply never going to abandon. It's the best PIM available. Unfortunately, they have no plans to develop it for anything other than Win 32. I haven't tried it in WINE yet.
• The lack of a really good GUI MUA (e-mail program) that can handle multiple accounts. It would be nice if it had some mode other than the three-pane view, which I detest. I love Pegasus Mail, despite its poor multiple account support, but the developer has no intention of developing it for Linux. Pegasus might also run with WINE. I hate Outlook, and all the good Linux GUI MUA's look like Outlook.
• If I do move to Linux, and I have all those Windows programs running in WINE, I'll need a good antivirus program to go with them. Kaspersky is multiplatform, so that's not a big deal. It is, however, one more thing to worry about.
• I need to run IE once in a while. Sometimes it's because there is a site that works only with IE, and sometimes it's to check my web pages to make sure that the 95% of my beloved viewing public on IE are getting a good experience when they visit my site. I don't think IE runs on WINE.
• If I'm running all these programs in Windows already, why should I switch to Linux? The only native Linux programs I'd be running would be Mozilla, an mp3 player, an ftp client, an antivirus program, and that's about it. It's probably more efficient to stay with Windows.

So there you have it. Another story about a person involuntarily stuck with Windows.

Most anti-virus software runs on Windows operating systems (for obvious reasons).

If you're looking for a solution to run on a Linux server (but still check for MS viruses), check out Vexira antivirus. It is inexpensive, automatically updates via cron, unpacks attachments (even multiple levels), and has an integrated virus checker. It can check incoming or outgoing email, or both.

I installed it about 3 weeks ago and I'm very happy with the results. It can be installed as a sendmail "Milter" if you're running a very recent version of sendmail, or as a separate SMTP server that passes the mail along to sendmail via a pipe or a different port (once it's been checked). They have a trial version so you can see if it will work before you buy it.

Most other email virus checkers require a separate program to virus check-- which means you need a MS virus checker that runs under Linux, such as Kaspersky, f-prot, or Sophos.

Like I said, we have not had any worms get through our mail server. However we did have one person download an attachment from an AOL webmail system. She infected herself and some customers but all her attachments were removed before getting back in to our users. ;-) This too can be stopped by using Squid and some rules about downloadable files. There is a simple explanation of this within this nice little security manual from Gentoo

One other thing to watch out for... I had become fairly lazy about scanning the desktop since incoming mail was virtually 100% clean and since nobody uses floppies any more. Then I had a user download an infected file from her personal webmail account. I went crazy trying to figure out how this thing got in until I finally got a confession on the webmail use.

http://www.kaspersky.com/ . Russian. F-Prot is also an option...they're Finnish. If memory serves, there are also Israeli options for virus protection. It's a big world. Even the FBI can't nail down everything.

Forget McAfee. The best antivirus software for Windows is Kaspersky Antivirus, and they are based in Russia.

Very good virus protection is already available for Linux. Check out AVP.

Read at their homepage: http://www.kaspersky.com/products.asp?tgroup=4&pgr oup=11

"Linux is also in need of anti-virus protection. Firstly, new viruses for Linux appear every day."

If a company need such a misstatement to sell their products, then I do not want to have any business with them.

Vilmos