On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:20 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Anti virus is still the wrong way to go for this stuff. It doesn't > scale well. It sucks a lot of resources. It doesn't match all bad > stuff. Yes, it's always been a bit of a fail... It lags behind in detecting new things, they only ever manage to detect about 60% of the possible viruses, it frequently doesn't prevent a virus from doing it's thing, it frequently can't repair the damage... > There are other ways to keep foreign code from hosing your system Yes, prevention is definitely better than cure. Better designed systems, in the first place. Repairing faults as they're discovered, rather than hoping something else will circumvent the fault. More restrictions on what things can do by default (it can't write here, read there, publish that, execute something else). What were Microsoft thinking with the "I dunno what to do with this, let's try executing it..." mentality? Obviously Linux is not immune, nothing can be. But I don't ever recall reading about there being swags of buffer overflow faults with really serious consequences, like Windows seems to be *PLAGUED* with. Yes, I've seem some notices about such exploits with Linux, but here they seem to be the exception, rather than the norm. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
