Hi. Does anyone know if there is any antivirus app included in SUSE DVD ? If not, any antivirus recommendations ?
Many thanks
The firewall is built in and you can access it via Yast.
Anti-virus is pretty much pointless mostly in Linux. I have NEVER been bothered with a Virus in Linux. Clam Anti-virus is probably the most widely used in Suse and it can of course be used to scan windows partitions.
Most likely problems for you in Linux is a “Rootkit”
see here for expl: Rootkit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
rkhunter is available
SourceForge.net: Files
Clam-antivirus is on the dvd and there are update in the repo’s
- dreamerheman wrote, On 07/16/2008 02:06 PM:
> Hi. Does anyone know if there is any antivirus app included in SUSE DVD
> ? If not, any antivirus recommendations ?
Clamav is included and integrates pretty nicely. I once tried Avira, which is free for personal use. Both found my Eicar test virus, else I have no experience with viruses 
As for Firewalls: iptables is pretty much the default on Linux, and enabled on Opensuse by default through SuSEfirewall2. There are other frontends available.
HTH
Uwe
On 07/16/2008 caf4926 wrote:
> Anti-virus is pretty much pointless mostly in Linux. I have NEVER
> been bothered with a Virus in Linux. Clam Anti-virus is probably the
> most widely used in Suse and it can of course be used to scan windows
> partitions.
There you go: A virus scanner makes sense when you offer Samba shares for Windows clients.
Uwe