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Question Answered By: Adah Miller   on Jan 04

That would be avscan. Most of the antivirus stuff can be found in synaptic. Your
chances of getting a linux virus is so low. It is like being stroke by lighting.
Most of the virus scanners are for email apps. Like if you get a exe attachment
in your email and want to scan it before forwarding to a windows user. Windows
virus will not affect at all a linux/unix O/S. If a virus does happen. It cannot
at all attack the linux kernel. Like a virus for winodws. It attacks the hole
windows kernel. It can only get a program or so. And all you need to do is
reinstall a effect program. I been running linux for 5 years now and yet to see
a linux virus and be effected by one. I never seen any one get a virus at all.
All linux/unix virus have been created in a lab and self contained. All so you
need to be log in as root user to invoke a virus for linux/unix.
To use av scan just load up in synaptic. And a good rule a thumb is look in
synaptic first before going through all the trouble of DL from the net of RPM.
TAR, or DEB. To run avscan after the install is open up the terminal and type in
avscan.

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