I have read articles about vulnerabilities in x-windows. I just completed
installation of Fedora 14 on a brand new PC (not shared with any other OS for
now but may install Scientific Linux as well). Are there any anti-virus
software that would be necessary to install for Fedora 14. What does th
Clamav is your friend...
Le 20 mai 2011 à 16:37, Braja Kishore Chattaraj a écrit
:
> I have read articles about vulnerabilities in x-windows. I just completed
> installation of Fedora 14 on a brand new PC (not shared with any other OS for
> now but may install Scientific Linux as well). Ar
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:37:27 -0700,
Braja Kishore Chattaraj wrote:
> I have read articles about vulnerabilities in x-windows. I just completed
> installation of Fedora 14 on a brand new PC (not shared with any other OS for
> now but may install Scientific Linux as well). Are there any ant
On 20/05/11 15:37, Braja Kishore Chattaraj wrote:
> I have read articles about vulnerabilities in x-windows. I just
> completed installation of Fedora 14 on a brand new PC (not shared with
> any other OS for now but may install Scientific Linux as well). Are
> there any anti-virus software that wou
> There is no real requirement for anti-virus on Linux,
> just keep your system updated from approved channels.
> Keep an eye on your logs for anything fishy
chkrootkit can also be handy
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On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 07:37 -0700, Braja Kishore Chattaraj wrote:
> Are there any anti-virus software that would be necessary to install
> for Fedora
It's generally regarded that you don't need anti-virus software for
Linux. I haven't bothered, haven't seen the need for it, and I think
it's been
I've just been considering one of the security flaws that Windows has,
and wondering how Linux contends with the same issue: On Windows, it
was always a problem that you might install something (intentionally or
not) that would replace a system file that it shouldn't be able to.
On Linux, if you
On 20/05/11 16:37, Tim wrote:
> e.g. If I was to install silly-game.rpm and I saw comments about
> removing kernel(something) in the list of things to do during the
> intall, I'd abort.
>
I think yum*protectbase may do the job there.
so you place "protect=yes",
in the the legit repos
so other rp
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[mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:37 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Antivirus for Fedora 14
I've just been considering one of the security flaws that Windows has, and
wondering how
On 20/05/11 16:45, Andrew Jamison wrote:
> I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may work
> for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to far-fetched to
> say it could happen) then you may see commercial programmers offering Linux
> versions of their clie
On 05/20/2011 11:08 PM, Tim wrote:
> It's generally regarded that you don't need anti-virus software for
> Linux. I haven't bothered, haven't seen the need for it, and I think
> it's been around a decade that I've been running Linux this way. (And I
> do mean it runs, not hobbles about in a broke
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:07:19 +0930,
Tim wrote:
>
> On Linux, if you were to try and install a file that wanted to replace
> some system file, or some file belonging to another package that may be
> just as important, can you *expect* the install process to remove the
> original owner packag
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:45:50 -0400,
Andrew Jamison wrote:
> I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may work
> for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to far-fetched to
> say it could happen) then you may see commercial programmers offering Linux
On Fri May 20 2011, Andrew Jamison wrote:
> I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may
> work for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to
> far-fetched to say it could happen) then you may see commercial
> programmers offering Linux versions of their cli
On Friday, May 20, 2011 12:29:23 PM John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri May 20 2011, Andrew Jamison wrote:
> > I always install ClamAV which is free from the repositories, that may
> > work for now. When viruses become a bigger threat on Linux (not to
> > far-fetched to say it could happen) then you may s
On 05/20/2011 12:38 PM, Rick Sewill wrote:
> There have been Linux viruses in the past.
AIUI, most of them have been "proof of concept" projects used to prove
that a particular vulnerability existed and could be exploited. None of
those were ever released "into the wild," however, and can safel
On 05/20/11 13:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 12:38 PM, Rick Sewill wrote:
>> There have been Linux viruses in the past.
> AIUI, most of them have been "proof of concept" projects used to prove
> that a particular vulnerability existed and could be exploited. None of
> those were ever release
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 13:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> AIUI, most of them have been "proof of concept" projects used to prove
> that a particular vulnerability existed and could be exploited. None
> of those were ever released "into the wild," however, and can safely
> be ignored.
And then there's:
On 2011/05/20 07:55, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> There is no real requirement for anti-virus on Linux,
>> just keep your system updated from approved channels.
>> Keep an eye on your logs for anything fishy
>
> chkrootkit can also be handy
I keep remembering all my Apploid friends who told me flat out th
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