On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:36:07 pm you wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done
for many years.
Wasn't there a virus for unix systems a few years ago that slowed almost the
entire internet
Jon and Hannah wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:36:07 pm you wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done
for many years.
Wasn't there a virus for unix systems a few years ago that slowed
On Monday 04 April 2011 21:14:51 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Jon and Hannah wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:36:07 pm you wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done
for many years.
On Sunday 03 April 2011 11:41:34 Chris Allen wrote:
What is the current consensus on using a virus scanner for Linux
(specifically Ubuntu 10.10)?
When I last asked this (about 2 years ago) the general opinion was,
waste of time, Linux did' need it
If scanners are recommended now, which is the
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done
for many years. Now there are Mac viruses appearing and a mac botnet.
Clamav and common sense can go a long way, don't install or run things
from an unknown
Morgan Storey wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses,
Unfortunately, the alternative, virus scanners that look for
particular virus signatures is nothing more than security
theatre.
Firstly, inew viruses can be
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Morgan Storey wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses,
Unfortunately, the alternative, virus scanners that look for
particular
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:46:36AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Morgan Storey wrote:
I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go
via the line that we are immune to viruses,
Unfortunately, the alternative, virus scanners that look for
particular virus
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Morgan Storey wrote:
Yes polymorphic viruses have been around a long time, but look at say
the 100 biggest infectors at the moment, none of them I would say are
polymorphic, all of them can be picked up by signatures.
And all
To answer OP's question, my Linux mail server uses spamassassin and ESET
for filtering. My Linux file server also periodically performs full
scans with ESET. I do not yet run any virus scanning on my desktop
though.
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:30 +1000, Nick Andrew wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at
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