> -Original Message-
> From: Midnight Toker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:57 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
>
>
> If you've been running without Anti Virus software for years now, how
>
entoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Jarry wrote:
I got viruses many times.
Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many
versions of
DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2
since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have n
There is of course ClamAV for windows -all the power and Open Source-
ness of Clam in a windows .exe
http://www.clamwin.com/
Fligg.
On 6 Mar 2006, at 18:26, Jarry wrote:
i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in
i must try AVG
Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is s
Could try norman AV. www.norman.com
On Monday 06 March 2006 12:26 pm, Jarry wrote:
> >>i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in
> >>i must try AVG
> >>
> >>>Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite
> >>>excellent.
>
> Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL
> -Original Message-
> From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
>
[snip]
> As to not running without Admin
> rights, most of those
> cases can be tak
> -Original Message-
> From: Tim Igoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:36 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
>
> A windows `Power User` is too privileged for most uses.
What rights/privledges
Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my
> university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works,
> mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try
> it when i reinstall windows
> thx
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Ghait
-Original Message-
From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:50 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Bob Young wrote:
> PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the
> Linux/Unix
Bob Young wrote:
PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the
Linux/Unix world, PowerUser is not. The primary and most important
difference is the ability to *write* to the registry, It's perfectly safe to
routinely log on as a PowerUser, as PowerUsers can *not* writ
That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my
university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works,
mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try
it when i reinstall windows
thx
--
Cheers,
Ghaith
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-Original Message-
From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:04 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Bob Young wrote:
> In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on
> with admin priv
-Original Message-
From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:36 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
>
> In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows,
> switching to
> Linux is not cur
Bob Young wrote:
In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on
with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections.
True, but unfortunatelly, there are too many win-applications (even
serious ones), which does not work correctly (or at all) without u
In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows,
switching to
Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user
needs to
understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to
execute on
their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows cas
-Original Message-
From: neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:23 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Jarry wrote:
> I got viruses many times.
Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
No, there are virii and worms in the wild.
This is one of my pet hates. There is no such word as "virii". The
correct plural of "virus" in the English language is "viruses". Whilst
the word virus comes from Latin, the common pluralisation by replacing
"us" with
neil wrote:
> Jarry wrote:
>
>> I got viruses many times.
>
> Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions
> of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of
> OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever
> seen a virus. I have to
Jarry wrote:
I got viruses many times.
Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of
DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2
since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a
virus. I have to wonder what you are d
On 3/7/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in
> >>i must try AVG
> >>>Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite
> >>>excellent.
>
> Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates,
> and despit
i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in
i must try AVG
Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite
excellent.
Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates,
and despite of that I got viruses many times. Even clamav is better!
They
On Monday 06 March 2006 08:11, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> There's no virus scanner for Linux,
that is wrong. There are several.
> as there are (at least
> currently) no virusses for Linux.
No, there are virii and worms in the wild.
>
> The scanners you'll find, will check for Windows virus.
yep exactly what i need,
the way linux works would just make it hard to get infected but i had
a shared partition infected and that would be a good reason to have a
scanner
On 3/6/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> > hello,
> > i was wondering if there's any go
Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> hello,
> i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for
> linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux
> systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is
> clean
There's no virus scanner for Linux, as there are (at
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 06 March 2006 00:10, Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> about 'Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus':
> > I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses.
>
> Yes, but files accessible from a windows box, but s
On Monday 06 March 2006 00:10, Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus':
> I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses.
Yes, but files accessible from a windows box, but stored on a linux box can
become carriers. If they aren&#x
On 3/6/06, Masood Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses.
ofcourse but i wanted to make sure it's clean since i have a 120GB
ext3 partition shared with windows so if the virus got in it would
re-infect the windows once i reinstall it and be on al
Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> hello,
> i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for
> linux
clamav is good, and is also in portage.. just do emerge clamav and
you'll have a good antivirus software running on your gentoo box.
> i recently got infected on the windows part and the li
On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
hello,
i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for
linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux
systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is
clean i've been missing some documen
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