How Do I get ClamAV to work with Thunderbird in SUSE Linux 11?

3 Comments

1. megasparks0101 says:

   5. November 2009 at 19:38

   look around in here http://swik.net/ClamAV+SuSE
2. l d says:

   5. November 2009 at 19:38

   You don’t use an anti-virus program to protect Linux, you might want to use them on a linux mail-server, to check e-mail before you distribute them to other machines, to catch incoming Microsoft-targeting viruses and malware. If you are only running Linux – don’t bother.

   I have used Clam one time to remove a windoze virus that my windoze partition could not pick-up, so that is one use for clam on a dual-boot machine.
3. mr. c says:

   5. November 2009 at 19:38

   google clamav thunderbird :

   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=346139

   «Well, you can certainally use ClamAV on a mailserver to scan email before Thunderbird retrieves it but if you mean to download it and THEN scan it, no – there would be little point as it would already be on your system by then.»

   personally i don’t agree with this, but i’m not using e-mail clients but only webmail, thus, don’t have the "local" aspect, to deal with; even so, and considering that i never used and never will use thunderbird or any other e-mail program, is it possible to disable autoexec / autorun & all that sort of M$ cr@p, download any attachment without opening it and scan it before opening it? i do this with K/ClamAV without problem, so far
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