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Matthew T.
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antivirus, antispyware programs for Puppy

#1 Post by Matthew T. »

Hello

I work for a small cable and ISP company. We are talking about using Puppy to bypass the hard drives of broadband customers with viruses to get them on the net and demonstrate how fast their service can be without viruses/malware to contend with.

Once Puppy is running, it would be nice if it could run some virus scans. Are there antivirus programs included with Puppy 2.16?

Thanks in advance
Matthew

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#2 Post by valpy »

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 87&t=18269

or there's a dotpup for xfprot you can find using the Puppy Software Installer[/url]

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#3 Post by muggins »

most puppy linux regulars don't worry about anti-virus software. barry mentioned once that friends of his were astounded that he never used anti-virus software.

occasionally, a forum question about this comes up, usually from a windows refugee, and the f-prot linked to above is mentioned.

i know that the avast free linux also works with puppy:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linu ... ation.html

i never manged to get the registration key working with the free avg linux edition:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/4040/lng/us/tpl/v5

other possiblities to consider are clam-av, panda & bitdefender.

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#4 Post by GuestToo »

f-prot is probably the fastest antivirus program ... clam is probably the slowest (about 45 minutes to scan a 120 gig drive with f-prot vs. about 8 hours with clam ... of course, it depends what options are used, for example, only checking executables is faster than a dumb scan of every file)

Kaspersky is slower than f-prot, but not as slow as clam ... and it also is not free for the fully enabled version

strictly speaking, kirk's f-prot package might violate the f-prot license

i'm using the latest version of xfprot, but my package still has an older version ... because Puppy has xterm symlinked to rxvt, xfprot works better if you hack the source before compiling it and disable the line that uses xterm if xterm is available on the system

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online virus checking

#5 Post by Lobster »

:D

Connect and consider online virus checking . . .
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Online_antivirus_scans

Hope you use Puppy. Your customers will prefer the friskier operating system.

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#6 Post by mbutts »

Fprot works pretty good for a first scan but may not get all of the bad bugs out. It's always best to use more than one program. In Windows I have also used Spybot Search and Destroy as well as Adaware. Clam is slow as mentioned. Panda has an online scan for XP users (not Vista as of last time I looked) that does a good job finding and removing problems. Ewido was good and free for like 30 days. A dos based one is Vcleaner. As always a good firewall like Comodo or Zone Alarm help keep things from getting loaded on your machine if you are using Windows.
Since using Puppy, I have not had a virus.
Here is something I've thought about trying. I'm not sure how many if any of the virus programs would work in Wine but that would offer an interesting combination. I've considered trying that with wine 9.28. I think MU's Muppy has Wine installed in it.
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#7 Post by Matthew T. »

Lobster, that's pretty punny. I like it. The idea of online virus scanning is a great idea, too.

I appreciate everyone's input.

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#8 Post by perixx »

Umm...

what's the point of having all of your files (including personal stuff) being transferred via (probably broadbanded and/or insecure) internet connection to have it scanned - if you really are worried about computer 'security'?

perixx

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