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On Friday 09 May 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Tony Caudel: |
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> > I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering |
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> > if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates |
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> > well with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappointment with |
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> > clamav. Not necessarily clamav's fault since T/B maintains its |
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> > emails in one long file. |
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> Hmm, how many Linux viruses exist out there? Usually these Linux |
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> based anti virus progs only make sense on mail servers that receive |
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> mail for Windows users. |
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> Or am I completely wrong here? |
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I don't think you are wrong. I know that theoretical Linux viruses do |
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exist, but I've yet to actually see one in the wild. |
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Mail with a virus payload doesn't make much sense in the Linux world - |
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how would the payload launch? Mail clients don't launch executables and |
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they don't do it on Windows either - they tend to take advantage of |
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ActiveX, VBMacros or whatever other sandbox applet MS comes up with |
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next week. Linux doesn't have such things. |
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Rootkits do exist though. But how is an anti-virus program going to |
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detect them? By running as root???? OMFG. I think I will be much much |
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much safer NOT running Symantec's latest and greatest than running it. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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