-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-07-08 at 19:35 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:37:11 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Mmmm... what about backups? Surely, there are other things that scare me much more, as a real danger of loosing my documents, than viruses: disk failures (sw&hw), for instance. Antivirus is not going to protect me.
Sure and I make backups. But if I make backups of an infected file, the backups don't really help me, do they?
You can have an historical backup, some version will be correct. However, there is something else: files on /home will be data files. The types of data files that can be infected are those office files that include macros, and cleaning them is as easy as removing all macros from them.
I personally think the lack of Linux viruses is overblown - sure, there aren't many out there, and they are hard to catch, but that doesn't mean that there's no point in protecting yourself. If you run WINE, for example, now your machine is somewhat more susceptible. I can't run Norton Anti Virus under WINE, though, so something's got to be available to protect the system to any potential exposure.
Well, for wine you can scan the wine directory after using it with a normal antivirus. Yes, I agree there could be, perhaps, some danger with wine, depending on what you use. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIc+8gtTMYHG2NR9URAkqOAJ4honjK8yD4iYHBs95ahC38wvsi2ACdFRYK UFCuL7jvulP+3EV/8ddVMZ4= =XPeT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org