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Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt wrote: | | he could just install the Antivir | package so he can demonstrate to your boss that an antivirus program is | installed - he needn't actually *do* anything with it... :-^
In the first ten years of the Linux project there was only one virus found in the wild AFAIK. There have been several worms since but not so many as to make it cost effective to try and deal with them automatically (other than in better software patch distribution - "apt" anyone?).
But at the levels of infection seen in the wild it is pointless to take the kind of protection required on Windows servers.
Far better to take a holistic approach and install a fingerprinting system, so you'll spot unauthorised changes be they viruses or humans that make them.
It is important to paint the picture that both as an individual and as a group the GNU/Linux community takes security seriously, which is why we don't need poorly thought out sticking plaster solutions like antivirus software.
Far better to close down the routes of infection - such as not executing email attachments, firewalls that are enabled by the installer, services that default off, diversity at all levels, and fix the software holes exploited, than pray that your antivirus software gets updated before the next nasty comes visiting.
The magic phrase is "zero day exploit" - anyone here been following the latest IE vulnerability ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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