On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:12:49 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr <fpont@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have many programs which g++ has produced and I own. These could > be the target of a virus. It would be easy for me to wipe all of my > executables and re-make them but I just realized that unlike many > LINUX folk, I am somewhat virus vulnerable ... maybe with quotes around > the word. Worms, Trojan horses, phishing ... are possible. We should > not hide behind a Superiority complex until some strange anti social kid > nails us. We already have a lot of safeguards in place. But it seems > that we are a trusting community. Antivirus is not the right solution. It doesn't really work since blacklists can't be up to date or all inclusive. And they suck up a lot of resources. The correct response is to avoid executing foreign code, and sandbox when processing untrusted data and especially untrusted code. -- 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
