Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
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 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 (avg/avast) offer virtually no protection against unknown viruses. No wonder, if you look at their scores on virusbtn.com :-( Wanna really good antivir-soft? Try nod32! Unfortunatelly, it is not free, and even trial-version is only for win-world. But it is worth of every penny. Frequent updates (can be also 2-3 times per day), perfect heuristic analysis, low cpu/mem load... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
If you've been running without Anti Virus software for years now, how do you know the machines are clean of virus's? On 8 Mar 2006, at 20:24, Bob Young wrote: -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 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 doing to be so unfortunate. Here, here. It's really not about the OS, or what protection software is or isn't installed, it's about the habits and practices of the user. Any computer can (and probably will) be compromised if the user is careless or naive about what they do and where they go on the Net. Like you, I've run different versions of DOS, Windows (NT derivatives only), OS/2, Linux. I did get a virus once in the early days when running DOS, but since then I've never had a Windows or Linux box compromised by a virus or malware, and that's without running any anti-virus software of any kind on any of the Windows boxes. FWIW one of those Windows boxes is currently a web/email/DNS/FTP server with seven public IPs serving between four and seven domains. There is also a Gentoo Linux box doing secondary DNS for the domains, the windows box has a firewall but no AV software at all, both servers (one Windows one Gentoo), have remained clean and stable for several years now, as do all of my various Windows and Gentoo workstations, none of which run any antivirus software. 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 cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC
Neil, Thank you, looks like this could be the thing i'm looking for. Midnightoker. On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight Toker wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. Try searching Freshmeat for stress test, there are several programs to put network, CPU, I/O etc. through their paces. There's also StressLinux, a live CD containing a number of these programs. -- Neil Bothwick Captain! Sensors have detected a TagLine Thief! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC
Memtest86 is (IMHO) a fantastic piece of software, but as the name suggests, only tests RAM. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. It would be even better if it could run off (a possibly doctored) Gentoo Live CD. With thanks, MidnighToker. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC
Not really an option. I want to be able to test PCs running Windoze as well as Linux / whatever else, so it cant really frag the harddrive. -Although i like to think a Stage1 Gentoo build puts new boxes through their paces :) Any other ideas? Possibly something that could test sound/graphics/ network... I suppose what I'm really looking for is a hardware benchmarking tool... Thanks, MidnighToker. On 20 Jan 2006, at 01:01, Nick Rout wrote: Install gentoo and then compile kde/gnome/openoffice while playing three movies. On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 + Midnight Toker wrote: Memtest86 is (IMHO) a fantastic piece of software, but as the name suggests, only tests RAM. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. It would be even better if it could run off (a possibly doctored) Gentoo Live CD. With thanks, MidnighToker. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. Hope this works, though just as I write this, I vaguely remember there being a bug booting from CD on some of these macs -i'll go check up on that and post it if the above doesn't help. Yours, MidnighToker. On 11 Jan 2006, at 10:38, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from CD. After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the following key combinations down during the boot sequence with no success: 1) C 2) Alt 3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell) 4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on the keyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple and alt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked). Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD. Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'.Hope this works, though just as I write this, I vaguely remember there being a bug booting from CD on some of these macs -i'll go check up on that and post it if the above doesn't help.Yours,MidnighToker.On 11 Jan 2006, at 10:38, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all,I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2(blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colourreferenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it.I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannotget it to boot from CD.After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the followingkey combinations down during the boot sequence with no success:1) C2) Alt3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell)4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on thekeyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple andalt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked).Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment.--Ant...-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; if the mac is on, switch it off. Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. On a BW Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). Tap the power switch (keeping the 'programmers button' held down). You should get a very non-mac like beep. Keep the button held down a little longer, and you should hear the usual Mac 'chime' noise. Once you've heard the 'Chime' you can let go of the 'programmers button' and the screen should now come alive. Welcome to 'Open Firmware'. As far as I understand it, this is the Macs BIOS, or some such thing. At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi and it should boot to the gentoo menu :) -mine did, and it was cool. Hope this helps, MidnighToker. On 11 Jan 2006, at 21:16, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network folder... Thanks for the help so far... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
