-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-07-08 at 19:41 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
I've run Linux boxes for *years* without on-access virus scanning. And no, I've never been infected. But that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be being worked on; there's enough proof of concept viruses out there (and cross-platform OO - for example - ones) that it's something that should be worked on.
The fact that someone created one shows that someone's exercising some forward thinking about this...Linux hasn't been a target because it's a small segment of the desktops out there. As the desktop market grows, the need will likely grow as well.
But you don't really need on-access-scan to protect linux from possible (future) viruses. What you need to protect are the entry points to the computer: email, external disks, shared mounts... and some inteligence on the part of the user, like scanning downloaded software, manually if needed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIc85atTMYHG2NR9URAhlVAJ46qrWfoFnzWd8SyNmItrCy3ZzPMQCZAXdX 1GyovFQ0roF5b32j2y/XM1g= =nsFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org