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I want to install McAfee antivirus On Ubuntu. I've downloaded McAfee for Linux. But I don't know how to:

Copy pam_unix.so from /lib/security of a 32-bit Ubuntu (till version 10.10) system to a temporary directory /tmp on the 64-bit Ubuntu system. From Ubuntu 11.04 onwards, pam_unix.so is available under /lib/i386-linux-gnu folder.

Do I need to download the whole 32-bit version to get this pam_unix.so file?

Kulfy
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Jeffrey Ciriacks
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Without meaning to sound flippant, it's unlikely you'll need antivirus. Unless you're in a really high-sensitivity environment it's unlikely you'll come across a situation where you'll face a Linux virus. In any case I would recommend ClamAV as an open source antivirus product. You can install it through apt-get install clamav.

The majority of antivirus products I've come across - particularly Sophos antivirus - only scan for Windows viruses, and even then only do that by hashing the file. This means if a virus changes even one byte in the file which contains it, the AV product wouldn't think it's a virus any more.

jackweirdy
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