From: "Michael Miles" <mmamiga6@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 2010/April/16 14:55
> On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan"<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 1) I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized
>> myself, for Linux in my<mumble> years with computers. (longer than
>> yours, sonny, although I took a 6 year hiatus in there. {^_-}) (Even
>> my beloved Amiga (made some money off that system) had online exploits.)
>>
>> 2) Some of us live on mixed networks. Open Sores does NOT pay for my
>> bread, water, and roof, let alone any recreation. So I have Windows
>> machines around. ClamAV is handy to have in the Linux machine, which
>> is the master server for the system.
>>
>> 3) If you read the kernel list a little more you'd discover enough
>> chatter
>> about obvious items of vulnerability you'd want to put a condom on your
>> computer.
>>
>> 4) I will agree with you as far as to say Linux is not as vulnerable as
>> Windows. That is mostly because it is still perceived as being a boutique
>> OS with savvy users. When that changes I expect to see numbers of active
>> exploits out on the Internet to increase sharply. I would prefer a casual
>> date put on his condom BEFORE rather than AFTER he makes mostions to
>> impregnate me, which at my age is hopeless.
>>
>> {^_^} Fortunately Joanne has not had to reinstall YET.
>>
> I started with the Vic 20 then went to the 64
>
> I had a Amiga 3000 up to a 68060 and of course lightwave and the video
> toaster by newtek.
>
> Now that Amiga was a system which I adored
>
> I find Linux similar but I love the drag and drop of the amiga
> especially for devices.
>
>
> I run an Amd Phenom 2 945 now initialy with Win 7 x64 ultimate.
>
> Am totally fed up with Windows
>
> I like Fedora very much and am extremely impressed with security.
>
> I freaked out when Clamav found a trojan in my mozilla directory only to
> see it was the test virus that comes with clamav.
>
> I have a home network here with 2 other computers on it. Both Win 7
> machines
>
>
> We do not share mail service and only share music and videos from this
> machine
> (fat 4 tera byte hd)
>
>
> Anyway I think I will let it run for a bit but I'm still not sure I want
> it on.
> Still have really no need unless viruses start to take hold with linux.
>
> At the very same time once the damage is done by a nasty virus it is too
> late.
>
> Some protection is needed, I would think
>
>
> I put in a backup Win 7 dvd and scanned it
>
> Clam av found 4 on the dvd. Bitdefender for unices found 15
ClamAV is well regarded. It's not one of the top three or four around. It
is free. It also catches and marks many (not all) social engineering
attacks. I use a ClamAssassin configuration. ClamAV scans the email. I so
seldom browse from the Linux machine I don't scan it. (Now, if I was PAID
(well) to do Linux software I'd start doing that instead.)
(The first computer I worked on was an IBM 7090. Some time later I played
with HP 2100s with nice vector graphics CRT displays. I did some nice
electronics circuit design using those toys - built my own circuit analysis
program. So I've been at it awhile. {^_-} = = If you had a Microbotics
HD controller for that Amiga, I did the software.)
{^_^}
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