On Monday 04 April 2016 09:55:16 Rick Lair wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Is there any need for any anti-virus/malware/spyware software on my > linux machines, I have never thought about, but last week I switched > my desktop over to Mint from XP, and wasn't sure what security > measures are needed, I wasn't ever really concerned about the CNC's, > but now with my desktop, it got me wondering. > > > Thanks > > Rick > I long since offloaded the security stuff to my router, which has a generous sized flash memory, a Netgear something or other 3500 box. Its running the best guard dog ever, as its been reflashed to DD-WRT. Nothing from the outside comes in except what has been asked for, or access to my web page which is in its own sandbox on what most would think is an odd port number. I've been using DD-WRT in some box or other for close to a decade and have not been bothered. My web page hasn't been touched while it has generated nearly 20Gb a month in traffic for the last several months. In house, aka this side of the router, selinux and its ilk has been nuked. I have sshfs shares to the other 4 machines, replacing the troublesome NFS shares, which beat samba/cifs like a white mouthed mule, and an ssh -Y login session to each of them running. No login, but ssh key sharing. And the only other sharp teeth running is portsentry. But no one has gotten close enough to make that dog bark in about 3 years since I installed it. It Just Works(TM).
How much of that would, or could be made to work with windows I can't say as there are no windows running machines on the premises. But I'd think a windows box would be safe, depending of course on some common sense as to what was clicked on. I do run the clamav suite, over incoming email all the time, and over the other 3 most active directories daily. Incoming scan has nuked one of undefined purpose, 2 adverts from my bank that had what I think is an FP, and 2 messages from the clamav list that carried the same FPs as attachments. 76k, last updated on the 31st of March. Shrug. Its working 99.9% of the time. And I like DD-WRT, it's a good guard dog that only needs 25 cents worth of electricity as its monthly feeding. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
