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   From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: AVG in Kubuntu?   
   Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:07:21 +0000   
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   elaich wrote:   
   > Bart > wrote in    
   > news:pan.2007.02.17.14.54.25.696742@-.-:   
   >    
   >> Has anyone successfully installed AVG in Kubuntu?   
   >> http://free.grisoft.com/doc/24/lng/us/tpl/v5   
   >>    
   >> How?   
   >>    
   >> Bart   
   >    
   > AVG is a Windows program. The virus definitions wouldn't match Linux, even    
   > if you could run it. And, why would you need to?   
   >    
      
   there exists an avg for linux.   
   It is intended I believe only for use in linux when the linux system    
   is handling windows files and sending them onwards to (vulnerable)    
   windows machines. I believe it is not intended for trying to protect    
   linux machines from (linux) viruses. Because there aren't any (note1)   
      
   note1:   
   there are approx 100,000 viruses - for windows.   
   A few (a dozen?) exist for linux,  in laboratories, I think, but are    
   not in the wild because with the normal use of linux, they cannot    
   spread. Like seeds of weeds scattered onto a concrete path.   
      
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