* Jim Henderson
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.
It's so much better to use much more complicated solutions. I should've seen that at once! ;-)
It's not ANY more complicated then the ritualistic reinstall of Windows to clean it up .. that most users have to do or have done on a regular basis. *rolls eyes* ;D If it's just Linux with NO VM or Wine and your in some kind of danger of passing on a virus via your mail client .. change mail clients cause if a Linux/UNIX developer doesn't have it built into their client to warn the user they are doing anything with a file that is a binary exe file ... that's a crappy mail client. As I said .. I see nothing wrong with a user having ClamAV or some other solution scanning their files if they so choose to do so .. but unless someone gets a self-perpetuating virus to buzz around a UNIX system as root without any interaction from me as a user .. I'm not wasting cpu cycles on that stuff. I know what I send out via email and windows virus/trojans can't hurt a UNIX system. Just like in life .. a little care and no passing of infections is needed. ;D It boils down to that personal responsibility thing. :D -ben -- XO Communications IP Tier 2 OPS St Louis, MO. -- "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org