Re: Clamav

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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 19:37 -0700, jdow wrote:

> You also said Linux machines were perfectly safe. And I reacted by
> saying I don't believe that. Active exploits exist for Linux. Some are
> transmitted by email and activated in one of the more or less standard
> ways.
> 
> People said MacOS was perfectly safe, too. Once attention turned to
> them the exploits started flowing.
> 
> As a little point of interest, why do I see many times as many updates
> for Linux come down the pike as compared to Windows? If I turned off
> automatic updates how long before I had problems?
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more attitude and useful information is being exchanged here in general.

I would tend to agree that the current trend is malicious web code
rather than e-mail borne virus and I presume that is because the various
mail servers have gotten fairly effective at blocking them.

Clearly no OS is safe from exploit. The most effective security method
employed on Linux is simply not to run as superuser where most Windows
and Macintosh users are running as superuser and the software leaves it
to the user to figure out how to run with less privileges (very possible
but not the typical usage).

As for the number of updates from Fedora, some are security related
fixes and most are not but as you surely realize by now, Fedora
packaging allows for updates from various packages which tend to be
numerous and small whereas for comparison purposes, the last monolithic
update for OS X 10.6 was almost 3/4 of a Gigabyte.

Clamav is essentially a detector for known Windows exploits, useful if
you are running a mail server or file server for Windows systems but
little else.

Craig


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