On 12/10/12 20:45, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On 10/12/12 14:38, dE . wrote:
I'd not suggest KDE. Go for Xfce, and I personally give Debian to
other users (although I myself use Gentoo with KDE and with no
buttons on the title bar).
As an example of FUD, this message takes some beating. Just to deal
with a few points -
KDE is, for the most part, entirely stable - just stay away from KDE-PIM.
In this release of KDE, I can open odf documents as zip archive.
In the previous release, I lost the ability to hide partitions from
device notifier.
In the previous release, folder view widget lost the scroll bar.
Forgot for previous releases....
And all these were 'stable'.
And the reason why this problem exists and will never be fixed cause
devs and key team member never admit to it.
You recommendation to mislead her on the spam subject is objectionable.
Antivirus software definitely does work - as long as it is set up to
receive signature updates regularly. The reason there are so many
infected computers is that many people don't use an AV product at all,
others install one, preferably a free-as-in-beer one, and don't
properly set up updates. I know one user who has used Windows daily
for 20+ years and never had a single infection. Education on key
risks is the key.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_%28malware%29 (since 2007, detected
in 2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSChanger
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Kasperskys-Download-Site-Hacked-Directs-Users-to-Fake-AntiVirus-336193
Most of antivirus vendors dont themselves use Windows, Mcafee uses it
behind Linux.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/142318/hacked_antivirus_site_delivers_a_virus.html
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Rutkowska-AntiVirus-Software-Is-Ineffective
{Polymorphic virus --
http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792122/Review_of_the_Virus_Win32_Virut_ce_Malware_Sample
Virus makes themselves use antivirus --
http://blog.k7computing.com/2012/01/malware-authors-and-multiple-scanners}
{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stration
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H2AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=%22Stration%22+undetectable&source=bl&ots=-a1Fo4_QTU&sig=z3vFNBNiQTo17XWik9astg_MJNc&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Stration%22%20undetectable&f=false}
http://www.emirates247.com/eb247/companies-markets/technology/rise-in-malware-variants-make-antivirus-solutions-insufficient-2009-11-19-1.20838
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/05/30/f-flame-virus-detection.html
And if they were confident their tools are fool-proof --
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/getsusp.aspx
Wouldn't have existed.
No signature available --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_virus
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/7/2783575/symantec-source-code-stolen-the-extortion-investigation-and-release
Unprotected rates --
https://blogs.mcafee.com/consumer/family-safety/mcafee-releases-results-of-global-unprotected-rates
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/
Detection rate 27% (last time it was 26%)
I myself have made experimental malware (in VB, as a newbie) which I've
even deployed (after telling my friends); anti-viruses didn't do
anything at all.
And no, Linux isn't safe from malware. Safer than Windows, yes, if
you leave holes in Windows, but an unprotected computer, whichever OS
it is using, is likely to be compromised sooner or later.
Like I don't know that. With apparmour/SElinux, noexec, it's VERY difficult.
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