Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----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. >
Avira AntiVir 2 is fine on my 64 Studio 2.1 64bit. AntiVir 3 seems to become more Windows like :(. > 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. > As I have written, I don't use it with a daemon that scans all the time, only if I got files from the web I scan them manually, especially before I forward files to Windows users or before I use files with my own Windows install. > 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. Unfortunately you are right, the new virus from today will be detected by a scanner the day after tomorrow. We only can scan single files completely and maybe wait 2 or 3 days before we use those files, without having any guarantee. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
