-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-07-09 at 17:09 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:29:37 -0500, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Jim Henderson <> [Jul 09. 2008 10:22]:
It isn't needed in Linux *today*, maybe, but again, it makes sense to plan ahead.
I've heard this on this list and other lists for going on 14 years now .. and Linux gets more and more and more popular. When are the script kiddies going to take advantage of the broken scripting engine in Linux? OH Right .. there is no such thing built into it's core.
And if one needs to run windows on their Linux box .. VM's rock. A virus kills a VM dead .. rm -rf <file> and create a new one. Easy Peasy. Just make sure you VM can mount a share on your Linux/UNIX FS to store it's data where at least it's reasonably safe.
Yeah, so of course it makes no sense at all to spend time on implementing on-access scanning. Ever.
You are right, it doesn't make sense :-P As I understand, it was implemented and then removed. It is not needed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIdPrwtTMYHG2NR9URApvfAJ0fS+6SiO0ZzCE8uZBTk8dPvrYmrQCdG08i Oh77a3cz5bt0NWIBEIlj4xg= =+FNb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org