While there is no excuse for inattention and lack of knowledge, the fact is that there are Linux virus's (viruses, virii?) and there will be more.

Man, is this week a-killin' me. Enjoy the photos and funnies.

Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., today announced that it has acquired ClamAV™, a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project.

There are quite a few anti-virus packages that work with Linux, such as ClamAV, AVG, Avast!, Panda, NOD32, Avira, F-Prot, Kaspersky, eScan and Sophos. I got these names from a quick Google search and it may not be an exhaustive list. Most of those packages are proprietary, some are free and open source. Many of them charge licence fees.

Sorry but if you pronounce kaspersky to rhyme with whisky, the title isn't going to sound as jiggly as it should ;) I used to pronounce it to rhyme with "sky" but apparently that's incorrect. Anyway, I've been a long time admirer of the Kaspersky AV engine. And today it has saved someone's a$$ one more time ;)

You don’t usually hear that phrase spoken “Linux anti-virus”. But it does exist. One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in.

Version 0.96.1 of ClamAV, the free open source anti-virus toolkit, fixes bugs which cause it to crash when faced with crafted PDF and PE files

Clamav is the most popular free anti virus program for Linux environment.( Of course it scans for widows virus) However, clam is a command line utility and you need some skills for manipulating is properly. There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav.

If Linux is hardly affected by viruses, why do system administrators use anti-virus software on their Linux email servers? Because an anti-virus scanner on a mail server can serve as another level of defense for Microsoft Windows desktop users.