Submitted by Magma5 in freeAsInFreedom
xxi wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by NEOalquimista in Does anyone know any free antivirus software? by Magma5
I'm using GNU/Linux but I have found ClamAV helpful a couple of times. I remember downloading some game extensions/manuals or something like that and it happened to be infected. Now it really didn't effect me because it's exploited some Windows issue, but in theory I could've sent that to someone else.
If your home network happen to include some units running Windows it would also be a problem. I've never used Samba but seeing that's it's mentioned a lot of threads and the like I guess it's being used a lot and could present more of a threat.
Of course this could be a "user vulnerability" but I'm just saying that I tend to be semi-paranoid about these things and I made a mistake. I bet someone vastly more experienced than me makes them too. In that case ClamAV can provide some protection against oversights by the user.
MHC wrote
Samba is difficult to configure for Linux.
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