Catchy title huh? It’s the major subject in this months issue of Linux Magazine.
The online version of the issue is available:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/62
The First section of this subject deals with Viruses ( sic- it should be virii by the rules of the English language )
Tomasz Kojm puts forth a “Theoretical Linux Virus” and explains clearly why virii are limited in the potential for damage with a Unix[like] operating system. [ 3 A4 pages in the magazine ]
The next section is Virus Checkers [ Scanners ] by James Mohr.
He evaluates the performance of those anti virus tools that had a downloadable version. [ 8 in total ]
He then scanned a single folder, with 69 files in it, that were all infected with some windows virus. and rates the scanners on how many they found. [ 6 A4 pages ]
Then Robert Hogan review KlamAV, the KDE gui user tool version of clamav. [ 3 A4 pages ]
after that review is a second review [ Scan Manager ], this on the new product Amasvid.
Amasvid is an email server integrated tool to stop both viruese and spam. It even integrates with your sql server to store the rules for lookups for the spam functions. [ 3 A4 pages ]
So a total of 15 A4 pages out of 98 A4 pages devoted to just this one subject, virus protection for Linux.
don’t feel like reading the pdf’s they put on the website? $9.99 USD at local newstands $12.95 in Canada [ Chapters / Indigo carries the magazine ]
I would recommend getting the hard copy, it includes a cover dvd with full commercial Suse 10.0 on it.