More the security the better! Its true that there are a less number of viruses targeted for Linux but that doesn’t mean that its totally virus free! so to be on the safe side better to strengthen your defenses! Its hard to find a good virus scan for Linux, but recently I found out that Bit Defender (One of the top anti virus makers) has started to make anti viruses for Linux systems!It is called the BitDefender Anti virus Scanner for Unices! Actually it doesn’t offer a real-time protection, but who needs a real time protection for Linux?

This product comes with a Command line interface and, of course with a good GUI interface! It can scan both Linux drives and windows drives (can detect windows viruses in your windows partition, if you have one). And the price… actually its free for home users!

System Requirements:

• Operating System: Linux, FreeBSD
• Linux Kernel: 2.4.x or 2.6.x (recommended)
• FreeBSD: 5.4 (or newer with compat5x)
• glibc: version 2.3.1 or newer, and libstdc++5 from gcc 3.2.2 or newer
• Processor: x86 compatible 300 MHz; i686 500MHz; amd64(x86_64)
• Minimum Memory: 64MB (128MB recommended)
• Minimum Free Disk Space: 100MB

Supported Distributions:

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 or newer
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 or newer
• Fedora Core 1 or newer
• Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 or newer (Also supports Ubuntu)
• Slackware 9.x or newer
• Mandrake/Mandriva 9.1 or newer
• FreeBSD 5.4 or newer

How to install (for people who are new to linux)(tested in ubuntu):

1. Download the installation file
2. Open the terminal
3. Drag and drop the downloaded file in the terminal and press enter (if your using ubuntu when you drag and drop, a path will come in the terminal, better to run as root (path to that file) go to the beginning of that command and type sudo (eg: sudo (path))

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