Re: Sophos Anti Virus

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On 05/15/2010 11:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:12 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote:
>> I have many programs which g++ has produced and I own.  These could
>> be the target of a virus.
> 
> What do you mean exactly?
> 
>>   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.
> 
> On the contrary, I'd say we are a healthily paranoid community. Being
> security-aware means focussing safeguards on where it matters, such as
> proper account control, proper firewall configuration, proper scepticism
> about random binary downloads etc.
> 
> poc
> 
> 

  And either going through the source code and/or replying on the same
paranoid community to do it ... which most definitely happens.

  If you're compiling source code - its coming from somewhere.
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