Jim Henderson wrote:
Just because there's "no need for the chicken little routine" doesn't mean that we shouldn't be vigilant about protecting ourselves from potential threats down the road.
Today viruses are not a major problem on Linux. They're hardly a blip. I hope they stay that way. But that doesn't mean it makes sense to not explore ways of protecting oneself against that threat. I wouldn't want to be caught at the 11th hour when the first massive virus attack hits Linux and have nobody have even thought about how to deal with it in a way that makes sense for the "average user".
Users shouldn't *have* to be rocket scientists to protect themselves.
You seem to be missing something here. Unlike Windows, a virus on Linux can't "just happen". You have to make it executable and then execute it. Also, most Linux users do not run as root, again unlike unlike on Windows, where it's often necessary to run as admin, so the most a Linux virus can do, is clobber your own directory. Another thing you can easily do in Linux is mount partitions non-executable and read only, which makes it even harder for a virus to do it's stuff. Further, Windows is a security sieve, which can never be fully secured. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org