Clamav

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:37 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 16:50
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:39 -0700, jdow wrote:
> >> 1) 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.)
> > 
> > What has this got to so with viruses? Are any of the exploits you
> > mention communicable by virus? Every one I've seen so far requires the
> > attacker to be physically sitting in front of a system console.
> 
> I don't care how malware is transmitted, if it can infect the machine
> I want it discovered and eliminated. Perhaps a better term would be
> anti-malware. So focusing minutely on virus alone is silly and
> tendentious on your part.

On the contrary, the tendentiousness is on your part for insisting on
turning the thread into something it wasn't about. The OP asked whether
he needed an AV. I said he probably didn't unless he was supporting
Windows machines as a server. That is the entire content of the exchange
between the OP and myself. I have no interest whatever in turning this
thread into a discussion of the merits or otherwise of Linux versus
Windows (or MacOS or anything else) in regard to anything except what
the OP asked about. Is this so hard to understand?

> >> 2) 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.
> > 
> > Which is exactly what I said, if you care to re-read my earlier post.
> 
> You also said Linux machines were perfectly safe.

This is simply untrue. You seem to be taking part in some fantasy
version of this conversation which has no relation to what anyone
actually said.

poc