On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:28 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > If the virus definitions from Clamav is written for linux based > viruses and not windows based then what real good is it. > All virus definitions should be included with the scan > Especially if Wine and virtualbox are running on a linux system If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you will see that none of them are 100% effective. The last review I read came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to find about 60% of the viruses, and not all the same viruses. That is a pretty poor rating - just a bit less than half will get through. If you run Windows, one way or another, you're at some level of risk. A level much higher than running Windows. One reason people run virtual machines, is as an isolation method. If it's sandboxed, only that virtual machine is affected/vulnerable. If you deliberately break the sandboxing, then you make everything vulnerable. That isn't a Linux deficiency, it's a flaw in the OS running in the virtual environment. If that OS is a Windows one, it's definitely a Windows fault. -- [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
