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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:49:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110230849.53603.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost>

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On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> > On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> > >> there aren't any Linux viruses,
> > > 
> > > Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably
> > > incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
> > > 
> > > But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need
> > > a virus scanner. Yet.
> > 
> > There are literally *millions* of Windows viruses.  The Wikipedia page
> > just proves Linux has virtually no viruses, and those listed don't even
> > work anymore (exploits have been patched long ago.)  Most existing Linux
> > malware targets servers (like PHP software exploits in forums, wikis,
> > etc) and desktop users don't need to worry.
> > 
> > Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about,
> > there isn't a good way of getting infected.  On Windows, you download
> > random executables from the net.  On Gentoo, you install your stuff
> > through portage.  It's nearly impossible to get infected.
> 
> except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts
> providing malicious ebuilds.
> 
> 
> Hilarious.

Isn't that what happened back in 2003/04?  I can't recall exactly but there 
was some discussion where it was suggested that clients should rsync against 
two different mirrors and diff the portage contents (or hashes thereof?), before 
accepting the sync result.
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Regards,
Mick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-23  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22 11:27 [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Mick
2011-10-22 11:29 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-22 11:43   ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 14:22     ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-22 15:40       ` Mick
2011-10-22 17:03         ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 20:31           ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-30 12:35             ` Mick
2011-10-22 11:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 14:07   ` Adam Carter
2011-10-22 14:22     ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-22 15:14     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 19:55       ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-22 20:47       ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 21:30       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-23  4:04         ` Adam Carter
2011-10-23  7:49         ` Mick [this message]
2011-10-23  9:06           ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-10-22 18:46   ` Mick
2011-10-22 19:15     ` Dale
2011-10-23 11:01     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-29 15:39       ` Mick
2011-10-29 17:26         ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-29 18:11           ` Mick
2011-10-29 18:25             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-29 18:40               ` Mick
2011-10-30 12:50                 ` Mick
2011-10-30 13:32                   ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 15:29                     ` Mick
2011-10-31  9:54                       ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 20:01                     ` James Broadhead
2011-10-23 22:47     ` Dale
2011-10-22 19:05   ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-22 19:17   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-23  7:20     ` du yang
2011-10-23  8:38       ` Pandu Poluan

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