-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <snip> There are a couple of comments that I have.
First, most of the anti-virus applications that I have tried do not work with the 64bit versions of a given distro. Clam is the only one I have tried that seems to install and run reliably. YMMV. Second, is that I question the utility of AV, especially on a Linux based DAW. It is not that I do not believe in the danger of virii, it is just that I do not believe that most AV products actually work and are just wasted cycles. To illustrate, whenever I come across a virus in the wild (about a couple of times a month with my clients), I upload a sample to virustotal.com, which then scans that sample with 40 of the most popular scanners. A lot of the time less than 20% of the products successfully detect the virus, and almost never do the popular ones (Symantec, CA, Avast, AVG and Clam) ever succeed. Btw, it is trivial to take an infected file and make it appear clean to all 40 scanners used by virustotal. It takes less than a couple of minutes if you know what you are doing, and about 30 minutes if you don't. The point is that I would not trust a file even if an AV product said it was clean. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpsGc0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNGmgCePLTghcuqGDdF1UPl9I8sDk31 dI4AnjhTz0FLn6GNANgZbUV3CUt6hdGH =ztN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
