Anti Virus Software for FC1
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 5 22:31:30 UTC 2004
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:35:11PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:29:12PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> >
> > You probably knew already, but you really don't need anti-virus for
> > Linux - The developers acctually closes the holes the viruses are
> > crawling throug, instead of creating a market by letting 3. parties
> > create programs which serach and destroy them AFTER they got into the
> > system...
>
> Still it is a good idea to install such a tool.
> No point in being a carrier.
>
> --------
> Yeah, point taken. But unless he is intending to run a file server for
> Windows-clients there is no need to spend money, CPU, Memory,
Scan the archives for samba questions. LOTS of them.
> hardrive-space, bandwith OR labour on a anti-virus tool. If some idiot
Disk space is closing in on fifty cents US per gigabyte. CPU cycles
continue to improve.
> sends him an infected email intended to spread trouhgout the outlook
> address book, it will simply just stop when it hits his evolution/etc.
We agreee.... still...
If you establish an account for a friend that uses MS
as I did recently...
Or you forward a message to a friend that uses MS.
Or tomorrow a virus targets evolution on Linux....
Or tomorrow a virus targets something else in Linux.
Or your work place puts a MS based box in front of you and you connect
via ssh to home bypassing some virus filtering tool they have in
place.
Or some other...
It took me a couple days to install clamav and clamav-milter and get
things setup to my satisfaction (correctly I hope). When a virus targets
Linux, as it will some day, it will be nice to have things setup in
advance. I had the luxury of researching the topic and tool selection
over six months.... Now I can toggle it on and off with a simple pair of
chkconfig and service commands.
If we as a community work hard to limit our risks the 'bad boys' will
continue to go after other boxes.
Day zero attacks are a real risk.
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