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 1RHpKN-0000mI-8a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:06:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B1AB21C23F; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0841221C11E for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh5 with SMTP id 5so6181281wyh.40 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:04:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OPxDDNbU4Zk/8ZKq6VhVBf5YAFJLSFsbMtwzxXeBdRo=; b=Q48xyzXdqGA1o+Vfau6M61vUsFfhAyflHV0ouH2lMHZOX04tBcpdEIE+RWUaoofi1W IdPZhg4XrtGKf+BYU2w/MdkVreqSDdthxSZN1i5wfSOwtB/RI7HFpcPnFgd5hCvAA39h nu3NrBiuGnmUGmEpRw5ipSpbSX9Om+Gg7tK2Y= 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 Received: by 10.227.155.66 with SMTP id r2mr7771574wbw.71.1319342660138; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.151.147 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:04:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost> References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <2119952.ariVlydFnF@localhost> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:04:20 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus? From: Adam Carter To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 106a6efd3381ca177a116fb179c8e80a >> Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, >> there isn't a good way of getting infected. =A0On Windows, you download >> random executables from the net. =A0On Gentoo, you install your stuff >> through portage. =A0It's nearly impossible to get infected. > > except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts provi= ding > 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.