On Thu 26 May 2011 at 13:04:38 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Apologies for picking this out and snipping your very useful technical response but . . . .
> Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses > and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit > safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set up > some sort of sudo thingy, as seems more common now, I might be safer -- > but oh well). Feeling safer and being safer are not the same. I bet you agree with that. The way I understand it is that clamv doesn't protect a Debian machine so, having no other OS here, it has no function I can use. As for sudo being inherently safer - there are arguments for and against. I'm not convinced it is. Whatever is meant by safer. > It seems like the right thing to do good to actively try > not to spread viruses and malware (even if such malware doesn't affect > your own system.) It's the act of a decent netizen, I feel. Broadly I agree with your sentiments. Now all that remains is to convince the other 100,000,000+ who run everything as root to adopt the same atitude. Antivirus software is for after the event. Failure has already taken place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110526190213.GO3027@desktop
