About security...

[Thorny]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:25:20 +0000, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:

> Short answer:
> 1) Antivirus not needed unless you want to clean for M$ win machines.
> The last Linux worm I heard of was at least a couple years ago (Ramen?)
> Not seeing any Linux virus spreading now and as the matter of fact I
> personally have never seen any virus for Linux. Note that THERE ARE
> virus for Linux.

I think it would probably be more correct to say that there are,
"proof-of-concept" virus for Linux. To the best of my knowledge, they
haven't ever been "in the wild". Frankly, I can't think of a way they
could spread like virus normally do, there would need to be a lot of
servers out there running as root. Rootkits now, are perhaps another
matter, I can think of an attack vector for those and they are certainly
not as easy to find and clean. Disclaimer: I am not a security expert nor
do I play one on TV. But you did say short answer, I'm just picky,
basically I agree with you.