Re: Antivirus for Debian
On Thursday 20 August 2015 22:46:40 Brian wrote:
> 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.
My husband loves clicking on links. I once found 7 little .exe files sitting
in his home directory. I doubt that sitting there is what they would have
been doing on a Windows computer. I deleted them.
Lisi
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