Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav
- From: Brian <ad44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:02:13 +0100
On Thu 26 May 2011 at 13:04:38 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Apologies for picking this out and snipping your very useful technical
response but . . . .
Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses
and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit
safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set up
some sort of sudo thingy, as seems more common now, I might be safer --
but oh well).
Feeling safer and being safer are not the same. I bet you agree with
that. The way I understand it is that clamv doesn't protect a Debian
machine so, having no other OS here, it has no function I can use.
As for sudo being inherently safer - there are arguments for and
against. I'm not convinced it is. Whatever is meant by safer.
It seems like the right thing to do good to actively try
not to spread viruses and malware (even if such malware doesn't affect
your own system.) It's the act of a decent netizen, I feel.
Broadly I agree with your sentiments. Now all that remains is to
convince the other 100,000,000+ who run everything as root to adopt the
same atitude. Antivirus software is for after the event. Failure has
already taken place.
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