[QCLUG] Anti-Virus Software for email

[Robert Jones]

Thanks for the assistance and ideas.  I figured out something that seems 
to work for me.  I'm now using AVG anti-virus.  I changed the menu link 
to include "sudo" in front of the call to avggui and this way I can get 
it to update when I want it to.  When I have email that I want to 
forward I can simply run AVG, select the Thunderbird folder and check 
it.  All in all it only takes a minute or two and I don't forward that 
often.  Thanks again.
Bob Jones

Chris Cooper wrote:
> The only time you would really need AV is if you were mailing exe's or
> forwarding things from someone else.  I, personally, won't forward
> something not from someone I already trust, and any exe I download to
> send to someone I run through http://www.virustotal.com/
>
> But yes, I too have had many problems getting ClamAV to work right
> under ubuntu8.10.  Even Ubuntu 8.04 Server has a lot of issues.  The
> only way I have managed to get it running on Server is to download the
> sources and build them myself.
>
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