Virus scanning applications provide protection from malicious programs created to hurt your computer or steal your information.
Aegis Virus Scanner
Aegis 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite of the Aegis Virus Scanner. Aegis 2.0 is a background scanner - it resides in your desktop's notification area, and watches for new or modified files in your home directory. When it finds an infected file, it shows a dialog, allowing you to delete or quarantine the file.
ClamAV
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
Dr.Web for Unix
Provides real-time anti-virus protection for mail and Samba file servers. consists of a daemon module communicating with filters specially designed to check mail handled by such agents as Sendmail, QMail, Postfix, Communigate Pro, Zmailer, Courrer, Exim and Samba file server.
openprotect
A flat fee e-mail antivirus, antispam, antiabuse and content filters for your e-mail servers.
Vexira Antivirus for Linux
Vexira Antivirus for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD is a complete malware, spyware and virus defense system designed for easy and dependable protection. A common network configuration would have Microsoft Windows client workstations storing executables and data on a file server. It is configurable to prevent client workstations from saving, reading, writing, and executing malware, spyware and virus infected files stored on the file server (Linux only) . Also Vexira Antivirus can be loaded from the command line for maximum control and scheduling using standard scheduling applications.
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