On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:45:50 -0400, Andrew Jamison <[email protected]> wrote: > I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may work > for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to far-fetched to > say it could happen) then you may see commercial programmers offering Linux > versions of their clients.
Anti-virus software has some fundenmental problems. Blacklists don't uncover unkonwn malware. The blacklist will continue to grow as time goes on. This growth may not be linear. Checking this evergrowing blacklist everytime you acquire a file is not an efficient way to protect a machine. The resources would be much better spent hardening programs which process data from untrusted sources (web browsers, editors, mail clients, image, sound and movie viewers) and improving selinux policy to limit the damage doable by malware. One thing that free OS' do have going for them, is that there is less incentive to install software from random sources, as so much software is available from the distrobutions themselves. -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
