On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:34:54 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:41:25 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
At worst, you can only do damage to your own user. No big deal. Next time you will be more careful :-P
Arguably, Carlos, damaging files in your own user home directory is the bigger deal. I don't know about others here, but I can replace my OS; I can't replace my documents.
From the daily backup maybe?
How many home users even know how to do daily backups? How many have the technology? I've got 4 dead DLT drives in the basement. I just suffered the near total loss of the drive that was holding my backups (the drive isn't even recognised by the system any more). AV is *part* of the way of protecting yourself. It's not the whole ball of wax, but it is an important part. 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. 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