From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RHspZ-0008NZ-V5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:50:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD2F721C051; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E47121C027 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so6867896wwi.10 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:49:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=rm+8fgu+j9ngl/7OZa5n+eG0TxxJuwfSbglYl0/3jgA=; b=fJB7I+fY4xEvE7QjNi4rr8Kg8ZD2BdpuI42ZiyCBvfBKclpM6gCGVvZVqWh3I/G7C9 vOxDMh5tESSCgzFqefCk+FfoovOactszAAi9SBJcu6hICze8MBV86VAVA7zLHPfwgapG zvI9W2AMPQ756f+kwP91QQi11P1CtCQFkAQiA= Received: by 10.227.23.194 with SMTP id s2mr525178wbb.99.1319356187680; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o17sm29800236wbm.6.2011.10.23.00.49.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:49:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:49:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1689467.70zC6URZDY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110230849.53603.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9537830aa599f36981f1a7a714a8f59e --nextPart1689467.70zC6URZDY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, > > >=20 > > > Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably > > > incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware > > >=20 > > > But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need > > > a virus scanner. Yet. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts > providing malicious ebuilds. >=20 >=20 > Hilarious. Isn't that what happened back in 2003/04? I can't recall exactly but there= =20 was some discussion where it was suggested that clients should rsync agains= t=20 two different mirrors and diff the portage contents (or hashes thereof?), b= efore=20 accepting the sync result. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1689467.70zC6URZDY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6jxyEACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZAdwCglZZSAWnu+8tKtbhJZrlaYU+y QOoAn2DV44XmrCPXYMGGFuxk2VZgDvBL =VlHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1689467.70zC6URZDY--