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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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