Subject: Re: Clamav From: Michael Miles mmamiga6@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:55:59 -0700
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote:
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan"pocallaghan@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really do not know enough about this OS
Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is "why do you need Clamav"? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail servers for users who access them from Windows. If all you're doing is reading mail in Linux, it's extremely unlikely that you even need it. In 35 years of using first Unix and then Linux, I have yet to see a single virus that wasn't a proof-of-concept demo.
- I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized
myself, for Linux in my<mumble> years with computers. (longer than yours, sonny, although I took a 6 year hiatus in there. {^_-}) (Even my beloved Amiga (made some money off that system) had online exploits.)
- Some of us live on mixed networks. Open Sores does NOT pay for my
bread, water, and roof, let alone any recreation. So I have Windows machines around. ClamAV is handy to have in the Linux machine, which is the master server for the system.
- If you read the kernel list a little more you'd discover enough chatter
about obvious items of vulnerability you'd want to put a condom on your computer.
- I will agree with you as far as to say Linux is not as vulnerable as
Windows. That is mostly because it is still perceived as being a boutique OS with savvy users. When that changes I expect to see numbers of active exploits out on the Internet to increase sharply. I would prefer a casual date put on his condom BEFORE rather than AFTER he makes mostions to impregnate me, which at my age is hopeless.
{^_^} Fortunately Joanne has not had to reinstall YET.
I started with the Vic 20 then went to the 64
I had a Amiga 3000 up to a 68060 and of course lightwave and the video toaster by newtek.
Now that Amiga was a system which I adored
I find Linux similar but I love the drag and drop of the amiga especially for devices.
I run an Amd Phenom 2 945 now initialy with Win 7 x64 ultimate.
Am totally fed up with Windows
I like Fedora very much and am extremely impressed with security.
I freaked out when Clamav found a trojan in my mozilla directory only to see it was the test virus that comes with clamav.
I have a home network here with 2 other computers on it. Both Win 7 machines
We do not share mail service and only share music and videos from this machine (fat 4 tera byte hd)
Anyway I think I will let it run for a bit but I'm still not sure I want it on. Still have really no need unless viruses start to take hold with linux.
At the very same time once the damage is done by a nasty virus it is too late.
Some protection is needed, I would think
I put in a backup Win 7 dvd and scanned it
Clam av found 4 on the dvd. Bitdefender for unices found 15
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