Simple to use Anti Virus frontend for Linux

[Valtam]

Been doing some research on Sophos and it's all bad news. They collect data and send it to their servers. It's also not free software so there's no chance of creating a GUI for it. You also need a username and password for it.

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[elelme]

Again, great thanks, Jerry. I had almost installed SOPHOS, which I had installed in previous distros.
You guys keep saving me from my own old noggin!  ;D

[Valtam]

No problemo

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[tomt]

I have been using sophos for sometime and it does not slow my system down at all. It runs in the background and you can do scans anytime you want. Unlike Clam it actually prevents maleware before it gets into your system. Clam from what I have read a little while ago was taken over by some corporate outfit whose name escapes me at the moment and is not considered quite as good as it used to be due to neglected interest in maintenance. Not my opinion, just information I read online.
[color=rgb(70, 74, 79)]Once Sophos is installed if you update it by following the below instructions[/color][color=rgb(70, 74, 79)][/size]open a terminal and type sudo su & enter your passwordthen type /opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdateThis can take a few mins to complete so be patient- after that is completed drop root elevation by typing exitThen do a full scan by typing the below into the terminalsudo savscan -archive -suspicious -pua -remove /

If anyone is interested I will repost the video instructions to install via terminal which I had posted here some time ago. Only takes a few minutes to install and teh you might want to update. Cheers.[/color]

[bitsnpcs]

Clam from what I have read a little while ago was taken over by some corporate outfit whose name escapes me at the moment and is not considered quite as good as it used to be due to neglected interest in maintenance. Not my opinion, just information I read online.

Cisco own ClamAV  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus

"Cisco is the largest networking company in the world."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems

[tomt]

Thank you for reminding me. Here is the article I read. Cheers

[bitsnpcs]

Thanks tomt.

It seems from article Sourcefire bought ClamAV, and then Cisco bought Sourcefire, Sourcefire it says made Snort (Intrusion prevention system) -
"Snort entered InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame as one of the "greatest [pieces of] open source software of all time" 

Snort wiki

Would it be Sourcefire do the work on ClamAV ?