Antivirus for Fedora 14

[Tim]

I've just been considering one of the security flaws that Windows has,
and wondering how Linux contends with the same issue:  On Windows, it
was always a problem that you might install something (intentionally or
not) that would replace a system file that it shouldn't be able to.

On Linux, if you were to try and install a file that wanted to replace
some system file, or some file belonging to another package that may be
just as important, can you *expect* the install process to remove the
original owner package?  Or is it possible to stuff up some file
belonging to another package, silently?

e.g. If I was to install silly-game.rpm and I saw comments about
removing kernel(something) in the list of things to do during the
intall, I'd abort.

(Not that that'd help those who routinely do "yum -y install" without
due care.)

I think the case that installing a package that generates a file during
installation, can leave a file that's not owned by the package (as far
as YUM and RPM databases are concerned).

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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