Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2460 mails)

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

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The Wednesday 2008-07-09 at 00:03 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:

> > > Well, I disagree with them. On-access IS needed now and even more in the
> > > future!
> >
> > But it is not needed for linux. It is only needed for linux boxes doing
> > file serving for windows boxes! Ie, it can be better handled directly from
> > samba, not from the kernel.
>
> Excuse me,
> Aren't you aware that there _are_ files that are harmfull for
> linux/slowarez etc etc???? Rootkits, backdoors and all sort of nice
> "features" that can be included into usefull programs, Just waiting to
> be excecuted once as root.

But how would on-access-scan protect against that?

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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