From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FH5UM-0007lm-Ra for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:42:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k28KfO65022623; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:41:24 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k28Ka9rs027120 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:36:10 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C131803D for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:36:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22693-01 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:36:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123C218033 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:36:07 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Jolet Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:36:07 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: ba5853e1-dbbc-4b41-9d20-f134044b01ec X-Archives-Hash: c82a585e58b80c2a0054fbcedb28f965 > > In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, > switching to > Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user > needs to > understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to > execute on > their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows cases, > simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would > probably stop > 99% plus of the infections. that's an interesting comment....windows xp is the first version that even gives you that option. and most of the games my kids play on the computer simply won't run unless you have admin rights. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list