From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JexhI-0003cM-4Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B37FBE0A8D; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost06.isp.att.net (fmailhost06.isp.att.net [204.127.217.106]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E085E0A8D for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.79] (host-216-78-70-79.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.79]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc06) with ESMTP id <20080327192331H0600cr7jve>; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:32 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.79] Message-ID: <47EBF432.9080500@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:23:30 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080209 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows References: <8978E31831121041B2E97EBC0BF8503306AAD3B5@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> <47EB02BE.9020707@gmail.com> <1206641274.30987.110.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> In-Reply-To: <1206641274.30987.110.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49a37c2f-4a18-4b2e-8f47-70a61bf001a9 X-Archives-Hash: 3a8dca25a2ebd2a48b6e1dfa3b5b1299 Florian Philipp wrote: > > This is getting OT but I still want to ask: > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to > hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for > your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. > I have not ran a anti-virus here for years and no problems so far. I don't think Linux has this problem except for the rootkit thing. It seems Linux is just pretty much immune to this sort of thing. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list