From: "Michael Miles" <mmamiga6@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 13:02
> On 04/15/2010 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>>
>>> I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really
>>> do not know enough about this OS
>>>
>> Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is "why do you need
>> Clamav"? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail servers for
>> users who access them from Windows. If all you're doing is reading mail
>> in Linux, it's extremely unlikely that you even need it. In 35 years of
>> using first Unix and then Linux, I have yet to see a single virus that
>> wasn't a proof-of-concept demo.
>>
>> poc
>>
>>
> This is really what I have been wrestling with myself....why do I really
> need it
>
> Is Fedora really that secure?
If you learn it and don't subvert its features it is "apparently" more
secure than Windows through at least XP. (Vista is the NT world's ME.
7 might be decent. But it's protections are too easy to subvert, and
alas, too necessary.)
> I come from windows and I am amazed at how not secure windows is.
I'm not. Building bullet-proof software is really difficult. Otherwise
the newly revealed kernel null pointer dereference exploits would not
exist.
> So thank you as I don't really need it.
>
> The only time I get a reaction from Virus software with linux is when I
> put in a windows 7 backup dvd
I don't make a practice of keeping live bugs around. Of course, I do have
something too many AV tools false alarm on. Ah well.
{^_-}
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