This tutorial shows how you can install and use AVG Antivirus on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. Although there aren't many Linux viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses (that don't do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. When I think about virus scanning for desktops I think about a windows machine not a Linux machine. But as Linux and particularly Ubunutu becomes increasingly more popular so too we will see more viruses targeting Linux. However it's good to know that we have opensource virus scanners that we can use. Do you use a virus scanner on your Linux machine?

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