Re: Antivirus for Debian
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Brian wrote:
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> 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.
That's the sysadmin point of view. The user, OTOH does care about her
files. I don't care as much about the health state of /bin/ls as I do
about the health state of my home subdirectory called ~/.banking :-)
Of course, a compromised /bin/ls can compromise my ~/.banking and not
the other way around, but I think you get what I mean...
(That's what makes browser attacks so interesting these days. The
browser runs under the user's credentials and is executing random
stuff from the net (javascript). The browser vendors keep mending
their "sandboxes" time and again. This is going to be a fun watch
for a while -- and it's platform-independent!)
- -- t
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