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 1RHjAm-0007yr-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:32:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D902321C053; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104B521C029 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so7830664bke.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:30:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=34IfA3XPwnU+D7oEZs9tbml3KbZpTr1/M6DrF5TEk8g=; b=VuOCpAeKqxCbAkNov+MHfarWWVabSk2UAeUG27ZV/g26SRFxgZC2j0zLHgO/RovYSV i1VwugMPpeHzrJ4Sg7YjLQTixjVtyHQuc9IWjqeVhGDdbnVwdw31yhkyDOT2zmncYzWd ekUriGGGVRq0fofjBmasnUcMol6KNBRQCTn8s= Received: by 10.223.36.193 with SMTP id u1mr22257286fad.27.1319319054049; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC612D7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.18.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n25sm20605943fah.15.2011.10.22.14.30.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:30:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.2 (Linux/3.0.7; KDE/4.7.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b45dffa9b584cdc06c09018d19a24ff2 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. -- #163933