[Trisquel-users] Re : Anti-virus software?

2017-10-18 Thread lcerf
Wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware#Threats Free software can have vulnerabilities. There is nothing magical in the free software definition that makes it not have vulnerabilities. Technically speaking, free and proprietary software are the same: software. In fact a same

[Trisquel-users] Re : Anti-virus software?

2017-10-17 Thread lcerf
HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger and VPNs have little to do with "security". They deal with "privacy", and, yes, I recommend them too. Unfortunately, ad blockers are about privacy too (and not only about not seeing ads) because ads in Web pages now commonly spy on us. I personally use

[Trisquel-users] Re : Anti-virus software?

2017-10-17 Thread lcerf
Do you run any server? If not, incoming connections will not reach anything and you do not need to configure the firewall in Linux (iptables: you already have it!), unless you want to filter outgoing connections (but why?).

[Trisquel-users] Re : Anti-virus software?

2017-10-16 Thread lcerf
Well, viruses do not threaten GNU/Linux much (because it has less users, because its users tend not to run as root, not to install software in e-mail attachments, etc.). ClamAV can be installed but it almost exclusively targets Windows viruses. It makes sense to use it on an email server