Antivirus

[Steve Lamb]

On Mon, June 16, 2008 11:21 pm, Graham Watkins wrote:
> Clamav, with Avscan for a front-end works for me. Many argue that
> anti-virus software is unecessary for pure linux systems because all
> viruses (virii?) are written for Windows and they might be right.

    Tell whomever they are they're wrong.  I have encountered a Linux virus
in the wild.  So all, no.  Most, yes.  Is the threat of Linux virus
infection minuscule compared to Windows.  Yes.

> However, this may not be true forever and I think it's best not to be
> too complacent.

    Hasn't been true for years now.  On the other hand the number of
"personal" virus scanners I use on my Linux boxen is nil.  I have ClamAV
setup for scanning mail in and out of my system but that's it.  Even
though I have encountered a real Linux virus in the wild I'm not losing
sleep over it.  The number of Windows viruses my AV scanners have found
on my game machine over the years is several magnitudes larger than that
one instance.

-- 
Steve Lamb