Clamav
Tim
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Mon Apr 19 17:29:33 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
> If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based
> viruses and not windows based then what real good is it.
> All virus definitions should be included with the scan
> Especially if Wine and virtualbox are running on a linux system
If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you
will see that none of them are 100% effective. The last review I read
came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to
find about 60% of the viruses, and not all the same viruses. That is a
pretty poor rating - just a bit less than half will get through.
If you run Windows, one way or another, you're at some level of risk. A
level much higher than running Windows. One reason people run virtual
machines, is as an isolation method. If it's sandboxed, only that
virtual machine is affected/vulnerable. If you deliberately break the
sandboxing, then you make everything vulnerable.
That isn't a Linux deficiency, it's a flaw in the OS running in the
virtual environment. If that OS is a Windows one, it's definitely a
Windows fault.
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