Re: Clamav
Michael Miles wrote:
On 04/16/2010 01:39 PM, jdow wrote:
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan"
Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
I have removed all and I will wait for proper instruction as I really
do not know enough about this OS
Given that you say so yourself, the logical question is "why do you need
Clamav"? Clamav is usually installed by people running mail servers for
users who access them from Windows. If all you're doing is reading mail
in Linux, it's extremely unlikely that you even need it. In 35 years of
using first Unix and then Linux, I have yet to see a single virus that
wasn't a proof-of-concept demo.
1) I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized
myself, for Linux in my years with computers. (longer than
yours, sonny, although I took a 6 year hiatus in there. {^_-}) (Even
my beloved Amiga (made some money off that system) had online exploits.)
2) Some of us live on mixed networks. Open Sores does NOT pay for my
bread, water, and roof, let alone any recreation. So I have Windows
machines around. ClamAV is handy to have in the Linux machine, which
is the master server for the system.
3) If you read the kernel list a little more you'd discover enough chatter
about obvious items of vulnerability you'd want to put a condom on your
computer.
4) I will agree with you as far as to say Linux is not as vulnerable as
Windows. That is mostly because it is still perceived as being a boutique
OS with savvy users. When that changes I expect to see numbers of active
exploits out on the Internet to increase sharply. I would prefer a casual
date put on his condom BEFORE rather than AFTER he makes mostions to
impregnate me, which at my age is hopeless.
{^_^} Fortunately Joanne has not had to reinstall YET.
I started with the Vic 20 then went to the 64
I had a Amiga 3000 up to a 68060 and of course lightwave and the video
toaster by newtek.
Now that Amiga was a system which I adored
I find Linux similar but I love the drag and drop of the amiga
especially for devices.
I run an Amd Phenom 2 945 now initialy with Win 7 x64 ultimate.
Am totally fed up with Windows
I like Fedora very much and am extremely impressed with security.
I freaked out when Clamav found a trojan in my mozilla directory only to
see it was the test virus that comes with clamav.
I have a home network here with 2 other computers on it. Both Win 7 machines
We do not share mail service and only share music and videos from this
machine
(fat 4 tera byte hd)
Anyway I think I will let it run for a bit but I'm still not sure I want
it on.
Still have really no need unless viruses start to take hold with linux.
At the very same time once the damage is done by a nasty virus it is too
late.
Some protection is needed, I would think
I put in a backup Win 7 dvd and scanned it
Clam av found 4 on the dvd. Bitdefender for unices found 15
Michael
It is mostly a personal choice, but if you want to protect the two doze
computers from infecting each other with shared files that are
controlled on the Fedora box, you can run clam on that to catch it. I
run Symantec Corporate on all my workstations, and on my fileserver (a
Fedora box with a large amount of space) to protect my systems from
spreading virus'. I am less concerned with the linux box getting
infected, though, as was pointed out earlier in the thread, the
attackers go for the lowest hanging fruit first. At the very least it
can help protect against spreading of known viruses.
As a note, Virus Total is a good proving ground on how most AV programs
just plain suck half the time especially with bleeding edge bugs.
(Search Sans ISC for articles on that aspect, interesting read if you
have time to kill)
~Seann
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Re: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution
Timothy Murphy wrote: Seann Clark wrote: The other system is too large, in terms of file system to effectively back up (3.2 Terabytes of space) given my current means, and that system is on Fedora 9. Using pre-upgrade in theory would work, but as I haven't used it, I am not sure how it would impact the box, especially the VM side of things, as I know the kvm functionality is changed just slightly. Any suggestions would be welcome. Surely if you have 3.2TB of disk-space, you much have enough space for a separate partition to install Fedora-12 in parallel to Fedora-9? I'd just get a Fedora-12 Live CD, see if it works on its own, and if it does install it on a separate partition. In my experience, the chances of pre-upgrade from F-9 to F-12 working are practically zero. A large portion of that space is dedicated to either client file share or Virtual machines, so my ability to puck with space is limited, which is my issue right now. the Pre-upgrade issue is something that I am looking at and would like to avoid doing if possible. I have done a few upgrades before using yum, with mixed results, but since this is a rather well used box, as well as the Fedora 8 box, I would like to do this the most logical, and most stable way as I possibly can. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution
All, I am polling for options on some of my servers. I have two that are out of date now, one sorely out of date (using Fedora 8) and I am wondering what the best path to upgrading that would be. I would go over to CentOs on it, but I don't know how stable the move out be or what the level of effort would be on that, so I am polling for answers. I could also upgrade it to the latest Fedora if that is painless, per say. The other system is too large, in terms of file system to effectively back up (3.2 Terabytes of space) given my current means, and that system is on Fedora 9. Using pre-upgrade in theory would work, but as I haven't used it, I am not sure how it would impact the box, especially the VM side of things, as I know the kvm functionality is changed just slightly. Any suggestions would be welcome. Regards, Seann smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?
j.halifax . wrote: I think VLC and its streaming capabilities might do what you want to achieve. Actually, I don't need to stream the content, but your idea is good. I can stream the content and to see the result in the same PC in the browser. :) Thank you! jh Původní zpráva Od: Jorge Fábregas Předmět: Re: Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ? Datum: 26.2.2010 13:26:39 On Friday 26 February 2010 00:44:57 j.halifax . wrote: Questions are the following: - Which "video-player" to use - How to call it from the web site for running it in a frame I think VLC and its streaming capabilities might do what you want to achieve. You can further investigate there:: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ HTH, Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines To call an in frame media player in a web browser, sort of like they do with YouTube, if I am guessing correctly what you want to do, you need to host the html file on a web server, and use the embed tags to embed the media into the page: (as an example) To get more complex with this use that code and either set up a CGI file or a php file that can do all the dynamic settings you require. Most of the responses I have seen seem to be looking at it from a client perspective, that can stream a playlist to a client. I honestly have never gotten VLC to really work in a stream mode, but the html embed stuff, and other media control html works perfectly. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
