THANKS A LOT RAVI FOR A WONDERFUL SET OF INFORMATION ON VIRUS AND ANTI-VIRUS ON LINUX!! --- Ravi Shanker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 01:31 -0700, subhanil > CHOWDHURY wrote: > > do i need any anti-virus or firewall if i have > ubuntu > > on my computer?? > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. > > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail > > > > On Linux for Desktop users, you never need > Anti-virus. If you install > it, you are seriously wasting the machine resources. > There have been no > serious virus attack claims on Linux, though some > were made > experimental, but that too won;t effect the system > due to variants in > Linux systems. > So why there is no virus threat in Linux? > The file permission in filesystem and self(memory) > protected Kernel. > ALso, all the applications you use is OpenSource, > there can be bugs, but > cann't be viruses and backdoor, else it will get > attention and > maintainer or developers will remove that portion. > Everything is more > managed. > Other thing is, since you execute users programs > with your limited user > capabilities, not root, the code if malicious will > not do any harm. > There are lot many factors. Linux has never been an > easy and successful > platform for Virus propagation and attack. > > Linux doesnt have something like Buffer Overflow > bugged Abstract Syntax > Notation (ASN), Scripting Layers, heavily bugged RPC > etc. > > Neither assembly and shell code exploit could do > anything on > Linux(secure implementation), nor did the malicious > scripting work. Any > virus from Emails can also do nothing on your system > and also can't > execute itself to replicate. > So you have the secure system dear friend. There is > really no need for > antivirus. They are used on Linux servers, like mail > server and also on > system which is information gateway to mixed type > environment, cuz they > have to remove the virus and malicious attachments > before it goes to > Windows systems. > > SO ultimately, what you learn, no virus if you use > LInux, so no > antivirus. > But if you have Windows too in other partition, you > must install > antivirus. Go for Avast, the free and my personal > like. Its better than > AVG (I have used both of them, for a long). Never > install Norton, it is > not free, and is the heavy system resource eating > package,.Also , > removing Norton much times give you a pain in ass, > and surely after than > you need to reinstall WIndows. > > Firewall is necessary, on Ubuntu Feisty, every port > is shielded. So as a > default, you have maximum security. If you need to > open some ports, you > can guard them with firewall. > -- > Ravi > ------------------------------------ > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage : http://ra21vi.googlepages.com > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
