From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:04:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCEKWAGPtiW6Jxr_rDz9pXd3inW=4UNibxtB9r6SjVzTKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost>
>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-23 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-22 11:27 [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Mick
2011-10-22 11:29 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-22 11:43 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 14:22 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-22 15:40 ` Mick
2011-10-22 17:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 20:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-30 12:35 ` Mick
2011-10-22 11:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 14:07 ` Adam Carter
2011-10-22 14:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-22 15:14 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-22 19:55 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-22 20:47 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 21:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-23 4:04 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2011-10-23 7:49 ` Mick
2011-10-23 9:06 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 17:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-10-22 18:46 ` Mick
2011-10-22 19:15 ` Dale
2011-10-23 11:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-29 15:39 ` Mick
2011-10-29 17:26 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-29 18:11 ` Mick
2011-10-29 18:25 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-29 18:40 ` Mick
2011-10-30 12:50 ` Mick
2011-10-30 13:32 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 15:29 ` Mick
2011-10-31 9:54 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-30 20:01 ` James Broadhead
2011-10-23 22:47 ` Dale
2011-10-22 19:05 ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-22 19:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-23 7:20 ` du yang
2011-10-23 8:38 ` Pandu Poluan
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