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! ;-) 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