* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?
@ 2011-10-23 4:04 99% ` Adam Carter
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From: Adam Carter @ 2011-10-23 4:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
>> 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.
And most malware runs an exploit to install itself, it doesn't require
the user to run an installation program. So typical attack vectors
are: network services, documents/media files (.pdfs flash etc), and
all the usual web stuff. As stated earlier buffer overflows against
Gentoo would be a nightmare to write due to the system
variability....RHEL not so much.
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