[Tfug] AVG antivirus for linux

[Eric G]

> well --
>
> I asked about virus stuff, and everyone said eh! But then the other day I
> was looking for a compile/link problem when doing wxWidgets.  Everything
> would compile and link, but then running barfed.  The initial solution
> which was documented all over was to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for temp things
> other than setting the ld.so.conf or whatever it was).  I tried it and it
> worked. So I tried to set it in my .bash_profile file.  It never showed up
> after a login as it should.  So I went grepping around for LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and only found it in places that said it was being set.  But KDE nuked
> it(the non-gui F1 login still had it  (Fedora 5)). .  Then I went to the
> web and found things similar to this...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH just sets your dynamic linker's PATH. You can add to this in a 
secure way (rather than with .bashrc or whatever) by adding the directory 
to /etc/ld.so.conf
then (as root of course) run ldconfig to update the linker cache

The SecurityFocus guys are correct about LD_LIBRARY_PATH though... although 
unless it's a server out on the net (you're behind some kind of 
hardware/software firewall of course, right!?!) you should be OK

Hope that helps..
-Eric