[ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:48
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software
> 
> not free but incredibly good: F-Prot
> 
> commercial version is $50/yr for 10 licenses.
> Home is $30 for 4 (?)
> 
> 

I have had an F-Prot Enterprise license for my home machines for many years.
 
I recently ran into my first problem. I have an external hard drive that I keep all my security utilities on. There are a number of the utilities that are considered malware by virtually all anti-virus vendors which means they keep deleting them. The solution is to set an exclusion for the external hard.

The problem is the latest version of F-Prot will not let you exclude an entire drive. Even Microsoft Security Essentials will let me exclude an entire drive.

Sigh :(  I will have to find another solution.

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280