On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:52 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> this is not windows, we can be safer and we can rest assured that we
> will be careful not to shoot ourselves in the foot :)
The philosophy behind Linux, generally, makes things a lot better for
us. With Linux, when a fault is found, it
--- On Sat, 5/15/10, jdow wrote:
> From: jdow
> Subject: Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus
> To: "Community support for Fedora users"
> Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 11:45 AM
> From: "Bruno Wolff III"
> Sent: Saturday, 2010/May/15 07:56
>
>
From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
Sent: Saturday, 2010/May/15 12:26
>
> Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
>> 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 configurati
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:45:24 -0700,
jdow wrote:
> Apply the thought process to anti-malware. If your machine and your work
> is not valuable to you then forget anti-malware and plan to reinstall
> someday, practice safe browsing, play footsie with Nigerian spammers,
> and so forth. It's your
From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
Sent: Saturday, 2010/May/15 12:19
>
> Tim writes:
>> And the million dollar question for all these people running anti-virus
>> software on their Linux box is: Have any of you ever had it catch a
>> Linux virus?
>
>>From reading the Sophos propaganda it sounds l
jdow said
> I rather like to trade the flip-flops for
> the holey socks and worn out boots
> for that little bit extra warmth if I'm
> going to hike a mile or two.
The analogy kind of breaks down since I would prefer a pair of worn out boots
to even a brand new one for a long hike. I'm sitting at
Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
> 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.
And you kno
Tim writes:
> And the million dollar question for all these people running anti-virus
> software on their Linux box is: Have any of you ever had it catch a
> Linux virus?
>From reading the Sophos propaganda it sounds like it also helps discover
intrusions, which might be useful for companies th
From: "Bruno Wolff III"
Sent: Saturday, 2010/May/15 07:56
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:12:49 -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. It would be easy for me to wipe all of my
>> executables and re-mak
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
>> exe
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
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:12:49 -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. 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 some
On Saturday 15 May 2010, Tim wrote:
>On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>> Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged
>> in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and
>> company Servers / Mail Gateway etc.
>
>And the million dol
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:12 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote:
> 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 commun
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
On 05/15/2010 05:11 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>> Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged
>> in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and
>> company Servers / Mail Gateway etc.
>
> And the million do
On 05/15/2010 12:11 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>
>> Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged
>> in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and
>> company Servers / Mail Gateway etc.
>>
> And the
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:50 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> Also try ClamAV is the best open source anti-virus which is packaged
> in Fedora and RHEL through EPEL, I use it in my Laptop/Desktop and
> company Servers / Mail Gateway etc.
And the million dollar question for all these people running
On 05/14/2010 04:44 AM, Nermin Celik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
> from FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red
> Hat not Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and
> this is too technicial.
>
I would go with the flow. Redhat 6 is out in beta. You might
have to go with 5.x and upgrade. IT likes having support for
any problems. We use Redhat our servers and Fedora for our
work stations.
Good Luck
Frank Pont
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 13:44:22 +1000,
Nermin Celik wrote:
>
> At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat from
> FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not
> Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and this is too
>
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:58 +1000, Nermin Celik wrote:
>
> Technical argument(s):
> Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora
> Me: confused. Not whole heartedly convinced, hence have posted a
> message here.
>
> "Since fedora and redhat are almost the same" shouldn'
Thank you all for sharing your knowledge, highlighting different issues and
the links.
Have a nice weekend.
N
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:48 PM, steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/14/2010 10:28 AM, Nermin Celik wrote:
>
>> [...snip...]
>>
>> Technical argument(s):
>> Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus
Hi,
On 05/14/2010 10:28 AM, Nermin Celik wrote:
> [...snip...]
> Technical argument(s):
>Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora
>Me: confused. Not whole heartedly convinced, hence have posted a
> message here.
>
> "Since fedora and redhat are almost the same" sh
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nermin Celik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat from
> FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not
> Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and this is too
> te
Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 15:04 +1000 schrieb Nermin Celik:
> I'm requesting ideas/strong arguments so that I don't change from
> fedora.
Already understood. Please be more specific to get a specific argument,
sophos SHOULD RUN on Fedora, as I said, but you repeat what your techs
repeated, the s
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Nermin Celik wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo <
> nosp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 13:44 +1000 schrieb Nermin Celik:
>> > At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
>> > fro
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 13:44 +1000 schrieb Nermin Celik:
> > At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
> > from FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports
> > Red Hat not Fedor
Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 13:44 +1000 schrieb Nermin Celik:
> At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
> from FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports
> Red Hat not Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment,
> and this is too tec
On 05/13/2010 11:44 PM, Nermin Celik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
> from FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red
> Hat not Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and
> this is too technicial.
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