Kubuntu Desktop: is an anti-virus necessary :-\ :-\ ???

[tomikho]

Just stepped into Kubuntoo... and Linux. Generally speaking, pls advise whether an antivirus is necessary ?

Thx 

[Teppic]

Re: Kubuntu Desktop: is an anti-virus necessary

Not really, but it is nice to scan email, that you may forward to others, to make sure you don't help a virus propagate, for that use klamav.

[Hawkwind]

Re: Kubuntu Desktop: is an anti-virus necessary

As Teppic stated, clamav or klamav or other antivirus software is really meant for or aimed at or even best used if you run a mail server or for all email. I personally have a script that runs daily via cron that runs clamav and rkhunter(root kit checker) and logs everything for me. I don't run a mail server, and never have. But it's just something that runs in the middle of the night and I get logs of it and can check every day that all is well. Just something I feel safe doing.