On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:48:34 -0500, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
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
I can't remember the last time I reinstalled Windows from scratch, VM or otherwise. Of course, I don't run it on native hardware any more - I use a combination of VMware, WINE, and Citrix to use Windows apps for work - and there aren't many I need any more.
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.
Maybe it makes sense that people who write mail clients write mail clients and not AV software. Why a monolithic app to deal with them both? Again, that seems antithetical to the whole idea behind *nix development, which is to make things modular and to reuse those modules.
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 ..
And I see nothing wrong with giving the user *the choice* of on-access scanning if they want it.
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
Sure, and part of that personal responsibility is protecting yourself from being infected or put in a position where you might spread an infection. 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