Any antivirus software with f12?

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by jpollard

Wow... a VT-05....

I used to write games for that one. I did a lunar lander and a star wars fighter - all
written in Pascal + a tiny bit of assembler (using ASCII art for presentation).

Did you get the 32K memory or only 8K? I was programming LORAN C navigation
systems using OS-8 for a development platform. Didn't have the disk drive, but
we used a dual floppy system that was modified to work in a compatible manner.

A true RISC computer ... only 8 instructions total. If you had 12K or more you could
even run with software floating point. The first real virtual machine.

I inherited the entire system from a customer when they replaced their 8/E systems with PDP-11's. It was a full rack, dual 5mb removable drives (mfg by Diablo), a System Industries disk controller, and 12K. I did mostly assembler coding. I foolishly discarded the entire system in the 80's, it's probably in a landfill somewhere, but I do have a 3-board 4K core memory module on my desk

[jxxzz]

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

I don't care about that , if they are dumb enough to use Windows it's their responsibility to make sure they have anti-virus.

They are dumb enough to use windows because it works even with virus and else.
I installed fedora 12 a month ago and still cannot use it well, nothing seems to work or have adequate support, I ma thinking of buying red hat to see if it works... When something works you'd better not touch it, or else you may end without OS.
So I am with graphics drivers but no windows managers, the application for trading I use has an outdated version for linux...
My mouse is slow like a slug, I make it better with xset EVERYDAY, because for some reason it does not remember the setting, same for firefox window, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
best regards

[jpollard]

The firewall is built in, you can google for the topic "iptables". There is even a
GUI configuration tool available.

Defragmenting disks is not required in any modern filesystem. I haven't defragmented
a disk in Linux (ever) or UNIX (since about 1987). Windows hasn't learned how to
implement a filesystem that efficiently allocates space the first time... so they
still have to defragment their filesystems (NTFS/FAT16/FAT32).

There are no "in the wild" viruses for Linux because the rate of bug fixes (that the
virus live on) is faster than the rate of development of a virus. Linux also has a lot
of internal partitioning (software, applications, users, kernel...) that even when a
virus does manage to surface, it has a limited effectiveness... other than to identify
a bug (which then gets fixed, limiting the lifetime of the virus...).

[jxxzz]

I have aproblem with selinux, it is always reporting bugs and when I report, they are caused be cause or a new kernel or whatever, so I do not report anymore, it's a waste of time, isn't it a way to avoid this?
Easy life org, proposed to disable it with no consequences, ?

[jpollard]

Originally Posted by jxxzz

I have aproblem with selinux, it is always reporting bugs and when I report, they are caused be cause or a new kernel or whatever, so I do not report anymore, it's a waste of time, isn't it a way to avoid this?
Easy life org, proposed to disable it with no consequences, ?

SELinux doesn't report bugs - it reports attempted violations of the installed
security policy, and, when in enforcing mode, prevents the violations.

Disabling SELinux does make life easier... but it also makes it harder
to know if your system has or has not been damaged.

[smittypaddler]

Tonight's PBS New Hour had a spot for cyber crime. An expert they interviewed claimed that half of all personal computers have malware on them, allowing the crooks to read anything they type. The expert said the crooks can even take over your PC, modify data such as cc statements so you're not aware of their pilfering. Another expert claimed the crime is getting so bad it could mark the end of the Internet as we know it.

I've been running Linux since I installed slackware with 80-something 3.5-inch floppies. I currently have four computers 3 of which run Fedora with firewalls, and I recently installed Ubunto 10.0.4, and I don't know what it runs for a firewall, but I rarely use that machine. All of them communicate with the internet through a firewalled gateway. I don't have a single Windoze machine. I admit I've always had problems running SElinux, so it's disabled on all my machines, but I've considered myself safe all these years, and now I'm wondering if I'm living in a fool's paradise.

Is Linux vulnerable to malware and viruses? Should I be more worried than I've been? If so, what additional safeguards would others recommend. If not, why on earth would anyone consider running Windoze instead of Linux, if they were at all concerned about their privacy and property?

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by smittypaddler

Tonight's PBS New Hour had a spot for cyber crime. An expert they interviewed claimed that half of all personal computers have malware on them, allowing the crooks to read anything they type. The expert said the crooks can even take over your PC, modify data such as cc statements so you're not aware of their pilfering. Another expert claimed the crime is getting so bad it could mark the end of the Internet as we know it.

There's a difference between making claims and proving them. I could pull figures out of my nether quarters and spread unsubstantiated FUD on PBS, too, if I could convince them I'm an "expert" on anything.

Originally Posted by smittypaddler

Is Linux vulnerable to malware and viruses?

We've been over this so many times that I can't believe this thread keeps getting bumped and others keep getting created asking the same exact question.

For the intents and purposes of most people who use Linux, no, you probably have no reason to fear malware on your Linux boxes at this point in time.

Lose sleep over something else.