Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John B Pace wrote: I missed this one earlier. What kind of cave did I live in for the past 15 years? First, my most disagreeable person, that's really non of your business. Now that you know it is none of your business, I haven't been at all involved with linux got the past 20 years and am just

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John B Pace wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:36 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Non-root users still don't have root abilities, so, no, of course not. Do downloaded files suddenly make themselves

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 08:47 -0500, John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Huh, I could have missed this out of thread email. Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread John B Pace
Just a little note here. In my few weeks of searching for a distro, I tried Ubuntu also. I'm not knocking it as every distro has positives and negatives, though I like this and Debian the best. What I didn't like about Ubuntu is that one signed in as root and then one would have to create another

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:11:52 am John B Pace wrote: What I didn't like about Ubuntu is that one signed in as root and then one would have to create another user and remember to use it, though there was probably a way to change the su to user and visa versa. Did you installed Ubuntu?

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: Just a little note here. In my few weeks of searching for a distro, I tried Ubuntu also. I'm not knocking it as every distro has positives and negatives, though I like this and Debian the best. What I didn't like about Ubuntu is that one signed in as root and then one would

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-22 Thread CF
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably

[opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably sticking my foot in my

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread Clayton
So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably sticking my foot in

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread James Knott
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. I'm probably

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John B Pace wrote: So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Non-root users still don't have root abilities, so, no, of course not. Do downloaded files suddenly make themselves executable, without you chmod'ing them? The security model hasn't changed since

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
I can't recall any viruses, malware, but then I've probably only put 90 hours into linux altogether, which is why I introduced myself as an older dummy. What did you mean about being a non-root user. I'm normally no-root except when I need to be in root. I see that you just came on board as far as

Re: [opensuse] antivirus

2008-01-21 Thread John B Pace
I missed this one earlier. What kind of cave did I live in for the past 15 years? First, my most disagreeable person, that's really non of your business. Now that you know it is none of your business, I haven't been at all involved with linux got the past 20 years and am just trying to grasp some