Re: Antivirus for Debian
On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 17:16:13 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:45:09 -0500
> John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> > the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is
> > that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals'
> > time to create it.
>
> Another is that our systems are not nearly as standardized as those
> from Redmont, which makes it more difficult to create something that
> will work on most Linux systems.
Your point is a good one, as is John Hasler's.
But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in
their $HOME as long as the system is safe. The safeness of the system
doesn't (or shouldn't) depend on the vagaries of popularity.
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