Originally posted here by Phonedog911
im running slackware 10 and i have a bunch of pgp encrypted files on a cd that i need to decrypt, is there some open source equivilent of pgp for linux that i can decrypt these with? also, whats some good av and anti-spyware/addware(is there even any addware/spyware targeted at linux?) software for linux? preferably some free, open source stuff
Use GnuPG for encryption. GnuPG is included with Slackware, but you can always get the latest version at
www.gnupg.org

There shouldn't be any need for virus/spyware protection under Linux. There are very few viruses and no spyware/adware (as far as I know) for Linux. That's the beauty of it.