Free antivirus 2008 software for linux

Panda Antivirus for Linux is an antivirus for Linux servers and desktops. The project is an antivirus designed to be managed from the command line or console. To do this, an executable called PAVCL will be used.

The aim of Panda Antivirus for Linux is to scan and disinfect Windows and DOS workstations connected to a Linux server, as well as the Linux server itself.

Panda Antivirus for Linux scans files using both string searches and heuristic methods. The target files of the antivirus are Word documents, Java Applets, ActiveX controls and compressed files (ZIP, RAR, etc.).

At the moment, it does not scan the boot sector or the partitions table.

Panda Antivirus for Linux is a freeware version: Panda Software does not offer technical support for this software.

AntiVirus Scanner is an anti-virus scanner for Endeavour Mark II that uses the ClamAV library (libclamav).

AntiVirus Scanner allows you to create a list of scan items for frequently scanned locations and features easy virus database updating, all in a simple GUI environment.

With aLinux OS you only have to download alinux.iso LiveCD(burn to a 650 Mb CD-R or CD-RW and boot it). aLinux is a configured Linux OS that has a most spectacular Graphical Interface, in our words, the most astounding, versatile, usable & stable operating system today!
Especially made for those new to Linux, we believe this to be the most PROFESSIONAL, FASTEST and FUN distribution yet!. We believe our applications exceed SuSE, Red Hat, Corel, Slackware, Caldera, Mandrake, etc ...
We aim to please all user(s), expert(s) and newbie(s) alike who have already tried Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2K, XP, OS/2, BeOS even MacOS but want to gain the real experience for your PC!. aLinux OS at only 650+ Mb to download, comes jam packed with some of the most newest LINUX software available today!.
A 100% pure LINUX Glibc 3.3.4, Libc6 ELF system. The entire system when installed is less than 2 Gb! in our experience making it the fastest, convenient, operable and appealing Linux Operating System for your x86 PC.
Main features:
- Kernel 2.6.14
- PHP 5.0.5
- MySQL 5.0.15
- Xitami 2.5-c2 httpd/ftpd
- SSH 4.2p1 server/client
- Telnet 0.17 server/client
- VNC server/client
- RPC portmapper
- Xfprot 1.15 - 4.6.2 Antivirus Software
- KDE 3.4.3. KTTS - True Speech modules
- KOFFICE SUITE 1.4.2 - Simply beautiful!
- Quanta Plus for Web Development
- Aptget/Synaptic / Aptitude rpm-based pkg.mgmt.
- Xorg 6.8.3 20051120
- Firestarter Firewall
- Mozilla/Seamonkey 1.9a1
- Mplayer VideoMedia
- XMMS MultiMedia
- Games Galore
- The GIMP! 2.3 - Photoshop alternative
- Many More Gorgeous True Type Fonts!
- Addons - Gaim 2.0.0 - Webcam Edition supporting YaHOO!, MSN, AOL/AIM, ICQ, Jabber, etc.
- Gyach-Enhanced! The Ultimate YaHOO! Messenger with Voice/Webcam features.
Enhancements:
- The API was changed by updating to glibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1.1.
- Other updates include KDE 3.5.3 and KOffice 1.5.2. Xorg was removed and replaced with XFree86 4.6.0.
- The Linux kernel version is 2.6.17 with IVTV.
- A MultiMedia desktop was added for high definition users.

Yet Another antiVirus Recipe is a procmail that helps to filter out a lot of the most common e-mail worms.
For some of the above (plain iframe, clsid, xml, macro) e-mail is delivered normally but gets a WARNING in subject plus its old subject ($SUB).
Some of the warnings are:
WARNING-XML-CODEBASE-OBJECT-$SUB
WARNING-CLSID-EXTENSION-$SUB
WARNING-IFRAME-$SUB
WARNING-MACRO-$SUB
WARNING-NSCAM-SCORE:$NKNGS-$SUB
Main features:
- :: base64 signatures ::
- Most of these worms are MS-Windows executables and arrive at our e-mail encoded through base64 routines. YAVR uses especially selected signatures to locate these attachments. After that it places them in a directory (/virus/) sorted by name.
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- :: iframe html exploit ::
- Through IFrame tag a html encoded e-mail can download and execute a file from a remote http site without informing the user.
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- :: CLSID hidden extensions exploit ::
- Attachments which end with a Class ID (CLSID) file extension do not show the actual file extension saved and viewed with Windows Explorer. This allows dangerous file types to look as though they are actually innocent files, such as JPG or WAV files.
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- :: xml codebase exploit ::
- Usage of some xml objects allow local files to be automatically executed, regardless of the security settings on the target machine.
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- :: generic executable trap for bat, pif, vbs, vba, scr, lnk, com, exe ::
- The rest of MS-executable files that are not caught from base64 signatures end up in a virus-could-be file.
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- :: generic macro detection for doc,dot,xls,xla files ::
- MS-Word and MS-Excel files that contain macro commands are marked with a warning.
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- :: generic detection for most of nigeria scam e-mails (most of them) ::
- Nigeria scam e-mail is not a virus but a big spam problem... There are many good filters that use great algorithms for spam. This is just an add-on.
Enhancements:
- new switches for quarantine or not certain e-mailsbased on some ideas by Dan Smart
- YAVRQUARANTEXE if set to ON it sends unknown executables to /virus/virus-could-be as usual if set to OFF it delivers at inbox with a warning (and the X- header ;)
- YAVRQUARANTNIG same for nigeria scam
- YAVRQUARANTPRN same for porn e-mail read instuctions inside nkvir-rc
- X- marks in headers to help your own procmail scripts
- X-YAVR: MS-EXEC (any MS executable that wasnt identified by signatures)
- X-YAVR: NIGERIA (nigeria scam)
- X-YAVR: PORN (porn related)
- X-YAVR: MACRO (containing macro code)
- X-YAVR: XML-CODEBASE
- X-YAVR: IFRAME
- X-YAVR: CLSID-EXTENSION
- X-YAVR: SENDMAIL-EXPLOIT
- some more Worm.Moodown.b aka Netsky.b signatures
- another Mimail.Q