anti-virus help?

[DarthFennec]

Just because nobody makes viruses for linux. Although I admit it is MUCH more secure than windows, and infinitely more so than Mac.

And because if someone wrote a virus for Linux, it would never get into the system anyway. The email clients are all secure because they don't run any attachments or anything, iptables takes care of the firewall so you're safe from attacks as long as you aren't root, and any program you run is going to be open source and an open source virus is just stupid. I think that covers all the bases.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Use Avast! Antivirus.
It's free for home use, and updates itself daily. It's also less processor-demanding, and you can do selective file scanning.
http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download
[Citation to prove it isn't scary or misleading]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Avast is good, I used to use AVG but chucked it for Avira for my windows partition. I haven't had any problems at all with Avira, even though I surf more pronz than most third world countries.... I mean.... uh....

 

[Railgun88]

Avast! coupled with Advanced System Care Pro. You could go with the free version of ASC however you don't get the extra little performance tweaks and registry fixes and so on. Haven't had a virus or such for 3 years and running.

 

[gigastrike]

Norton takes care of pretty much everything. I've never even heard of Avast.