Which Antivirus Package/s?

My family don't suffer much from viruses or malware because I maintain some excellent free software on their windows computers. For myself I'd like to install a scanner into my Suse to check incoming emails, network shares and files that I download from the internet.

When I search in Yast --> software management, I get the options in the pic:
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I seem to have a choice between antivir and clamav. I think I'll go with the open source clamav rather than the proprietary "free for home use" antivir. So I'll install clamav, clamav-db and the clamav GUI clam-tk. Plus samba-vscan for network shares.

I don't want my resources used up by constant auto-scanning of Linux (Suse) files because Linux is probably free from viruses for the time being (until it becomes popular I suppose). So I won't install dazuko. I wonder if that makes sense.

On a separate issue it seems that the KDE app, Klamav, might be an alternative to clam-tk?

So that's my thinking. Here are my questions:

• Are Klamav and clam-tk options for GUIs for clamav? and if "yes" then which is better?
• Is there any reason I should install Dazuko?
• Can I scan emails in Thunderbird automatically with these tools?
• Does samba-vscan scan network shares for me when I browse at address smb:/sharename? Or how does it work/what happens?

Any responses to these questions would be gratefully received. Or any advice at all.

Swerdna

I use clamav. You install the package and you mail-client (at least kmail) is automatically configured to use it. In the runlevel-editor you must then activate the services clamd and freshclam, so that clamav is running and updated.

* Are Klamav and clam-tk options for GUIs for clamav? and if "yes" then which is better?
* Is there any reason I should install Dazuko?
* Can I scan emails in Thunderbird automatically with these tools?
* Does samba-vscan scan network shares for me when I browse at address smb:/sharename? Or how does it work/what happens?

Swerdna
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Klamav is a gui for clamav
Dazuko is a kernel module which allows on-access virus scanning.
Klamav does not work automatically with thunderbird
Not sure about Samba

/Geoff

Thanks for those two replies.
I'm installing the packages you've suggested and am wading through the procedures/setups now.
{Installed clamav klamav and their associates, but not dasuko because I don't want Suse scanning files willy-nilly.}
It's a pity about Thunderbird. I think that makes it of limited use to me and a large number of Linux users; but I hope to find out some way of scanning T-bird emails.

Swerdna