Re: Antivirus for Debian
On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 07:21:48 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46:40PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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...
I do. We are agreed that my files are the most important on the system. :)
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