Even though Linux is highly secure OS , you’ll still find viruses for it. Linux users are doubling per year as seen in the recent news . As the number of users have started to increase, we can expect the increase in viruses too.
Available Viruses:
Linux.Bliss, Linux.Diesel, Linux.Gildo, Linux.Kagob, Linux.Nuxbee, Linux.Satyr, Linux.Vit.4096, Linux.Winter, Linux.Zipworm are some of the viruses which are present for Linux.
Mainly these viruses are not memory resident ,they are parasitic in nature and will get in to a file and alter the size of the file. These viruses are not that harmful but prevention is better than cure.
Available AntiViruses for Linux :
1.Clam : is a well known open source anti virus toolkit. Clam is a Email based one,which check for virus on email gateways.Which is specifically designed for Linux systems.
2.Panda : Panda is a well know anti-virus vendor for Windows and they’ve released the Linux version too .It works only with Redhat, SuSE ,Mandrake and Debian as mentioned on their website.
3.AVG : Its open source anti virus, AVG has the best detection among freely available AntiViruses. It can be used with Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake and Debian.
The above three are the commonly used ones. Other distributions are :
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Task manager is a program used to see the running status of a program.Task manager can also be used to kill the running processes or applications. In spite of all this, using Task manager we can set the priorities for the processes running currently. On Windows it is easy to press alt+ctrl+del to get the task manager, but you may think it is very tough on KUbuntu however, It is not and is very easy actually. We have three ways to do this :
1. Go to applications->system->KsysGuard (performance monitor) which will list you the current process on the system and its memory usage every thing you need from a task manager.
2. Here’s the second and quicker way of opening the KsysGuard. Right click on KsysGuard(performance monitor) you will get an option to put it on the task panel. You’ll get the icon of KsysGuard and you can fire it up from there and by just one click!
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Under Linux you can easily use your Windows partitions,just have to follow some steps.In Linux there is a file found default called /etc/fstab which is a part of system configuration./etc/fstab is commonly used by the command ‘mount’ ,which reads fstab to mount the specified device or partitions.Linux distributions like Ubuntu can mount partitions of the windows automatically since which is included in /etc/fstab.In all the Linux distributions we can do this manually in four or five steps.
How to mount: Using the following steps you will be able to mount partitions or drives (windows partitions or even removable media like floppy,CD-ROM etc) easily under your Linux.
1.Create a directory under Linux using mkdir e.g.: mkdir /mnt/windows
2.Now to see the disk partitions use the command fdisk -l which will list you all the partitions with the file system type.
3.In this step we can mount the required windows partitions on the created directory using a command mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
3.Now make your current directory as windows you can easily do this by using a command cd /mnt/windows
4.your windows files are now ready to use under Linux,just type “ls /mnt/windows” command to see the those files and make use of it.
5. To automate this process that is to make Linux mount these partitions at boot time, we can add these in the /etc/fstab file. (have to login as root to edit it)
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