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 1RHdIP-0004d1-JX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:15:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2BC021C19A; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745AF21C0ED for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:14:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE961B4006 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:14:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.062 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.062 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.631, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UmQC4H3t9rVK for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719241B4002 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHdH9-0006tP-0R for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:14:19 +0200 Received: from athedsl-370940.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.0.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:14:18 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-370940.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:14:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:14:32 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-370940.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 04a86c7e0db3602b453802499c981972 On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> there aren't any Linux viruses, > > Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware > > But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need > a virus scanner. Yet. There are literally *millions* of Windows viruses. The Wikipedia page just proves Linux has virtually no viruses, and those listed don't even work anymore (exploits have been patched long ago.) Most existing Linux malware targets servers (like PHP software exploits in forums, wikis, etc) and desktop users don't need to worry. 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.