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

Question

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

Answer 1

look around in here http://swik.net/ClamAV+SuSE

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

google clamav thunderbird :

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

«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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