On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:00:47 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
That resolves any issue with executable viruses. OK, so how about macro viruses?
Samething. Scan on download. Or have scan on load on the program executing the macro.
Yeah, so an extra layer in the application rather than have it done one way at the OS level. I can't see that making sense - it's like saying "every download manager ever created must have built-in virus scanning". Why reinvent the wheel in each application? I thought one of the benefits of using *nix systems in general was that things tend to be built on special-purpose components. Like Mandvd, it doesn't reimplement ffmpeg/mplayer/transcode, it calls them. It doesn't implement its own DVD authoring suite, it uses dvdauthor. The whole idea of most application development in Linux seems to me to be code reuse and not making every application implement its own way of doing things. I'm just really puzzled by this attitude that each application should implement its own virus scanning - that seems so antithetical to the whole idea of how programs are developed on the platform.
I certainly do not want scan on read on every single file in my system. Not in Linux. That's one of the reasons I use Linux: I do not need it.
Well, sure, that's also a reason I use Linux. But you and I are *smart* users. Not all users have our saavy. As the Linux user base grows, the average level of expertise the user has is going to drop farther and farther. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org